We Can't Eat Money: Full-Bodied Food Economics

Join us for this conversation, part of our Full-Bodied Economics Series in 2024! We'll share little known ways an economy waged as war has created a ruthless culture of "privatization" and "financialization," indifferent to social outcomes. Its mystification of money, as if money alone creates value, makes a safe climate, good health care, healthy food, and affordable housing more and more difficult for more and more people.

Does it need to be this way? Are there better ideas? Find out by tuning in.

We're working with AEOO Advisory Board member Jules Salinas of Women, Food, and Agriculture to bring you the latest on sustainable food systems and the stalled USDA Agriculture Bill that will set policy affecting our food and farms. It's huge, legislating for five years. But last year, Congress instead extended it for a year. That extension expires on Sept. 30, 2024. Find out its status and way more!

Don't miss it! RSVP for access to our curriculum for further learning and the chance to ask questions in advance of our panelists. Our resource guide will define terms you should know and resources and organizations that have "skin in the game," working for real life solutions.

Speakers will be announced soon.

As some feminist epistemologists (Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing and reasoning. Our economics is lived in tangible and complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women.

Our Zoom of Own Series brings women (and men who value women's expertise) together to construct a fuller knowledge and set of values and experiences now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” Together, we're flipping the script on a racist, sexist economy.

Registrants will receive a curriculum for further learning on the subjects covered and be able to submit questions to the panelists live and in advance. After our conversation, we’ll offer chances to discuss what you learned and the work you’re doing, what questions you have and what’s connected to where you live.

We value this educational and engaging event with experts at $25, but this digital event is offered at a sliding scale. Please give what you can to ensure that AEOO continues to provide you with woman-friendly solutions and insights into financial war games that exploit us.

All donations are tax-deductible and will fuel our work to make this information widely accessible and continue offering free and low-cost economic justice resources to the public!

If you have trouble registering, please email [email protected].

An Economy of Our Own is an economic justice organization focused on empowering grassroots feminist activists and leaders and amplifying the economic wisdom of women in order to challenge a racist, sexist economy. Virginia Woolf said a woman needed an income and a room of her own—AEOO's mission is to build women an entire economy of our own that values diversity, is driven by women’s ideas and leadership, and wages life instead of war. AEOO offers digital webinars and guided courses, connects economic justice and feminist organizations and leaders, and is building a library of resources always accessible at no cost to make the perspectives and ideas of women.

Keep in touch @economyofourown on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Learn more at aneconomyofourown.org.

Host or Publisher An Economy of Our Own