The International MarxistFeminist Conference: Decolonising Bodies, Territories and Practices
Porto | 21-23 November | Cooperativa dos Pedreiros – Porto
DAY 1 – 21st NOVEMBER 2025
13.00 – 14.00 – REGISTRATIONS
14.00 – 16.00 OPENING PLENARY
From Marx towards a decolonial Marxist Feminism
Frigga Haug (video), Nadia De Mond, Catarina Isabel Martins and João Manuel de Oliveira
Workshop: Building feminist, queer, and anti-racist networks of resistance, based on dialogues and echoes on KORA (Claudia Varejão, 2024)
16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.00 – PANEL ROUND 1
1a RESHAPING THE WORLD WORKING CLASS
Maria Jose Gordillo Kempff; Exploring the Bolivian Informal Working Class from a Marxist Feminist Lens
Eduardo Erazo Acosta e Vanessa Arteaga Bernal; Global environmental deterioration, analysis from Latin America and the work of indigenous women, indigenous movement Colombia-Ecuador, marked epistemes Sumak Kawsay-Buen vivir
Giulia Longoni; Feminism and revolution. Radical entanglements and resistant perspectives
Aleksandra Milinković; Resistance as Care: Women and the Creation of Exilic Territories
1b QUEER MATERIALISMS: CAPITAL, BODIES AND POLITICS OF DESIRE
Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz; Understanding the Transformative Effect of Wittigian Thought: Breaking Away from Straight Thinking
Kuba Malec; Colonizing Post-Socialist Bodies: Inquiry into the Social Construction of Sexuality in Poland
Evelina Johansson Wilén; Family Abolition – A Critique
1c MIGRATION, DOMESTIC LABOUR AND INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE
Marek Fenners; Social reproduction and migrant labour between India and the Gulf
Arslan Asghar; Migrant Women’s Labor, Reproductive Work, and the Double Burden of Independence
Rita Calvário; “If I continue in agriculture, I will die young”: Migrant women, vulnerability and exploitation in intensive agricultural enclaves – the case of Odemira, Portugal
Fabian Pfeiffer; Anything but clean: Coping and resistance of domestic cleaners in the platform economy
1d MARXISM FEMINISM AS TOOL FOR TRANSFORMATION
Laya Hooshyari; Revolutionary Struggles in Contemporary Grassroots Movements: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Leadership, Organisational Structures, and Strategy in Iran and England
Angelina Giannopoulou; “Revolutionary Love? Christian Agape and Marxist Solidarity in Feminist Struggles”
Katharina Schitow; “Navigating Affect, Body and Knowledge: Institutional Ethnography as Marxist-Feminist Practice”
Nesvan Committee, Mor Dayanışma; From Resistance to Revolution: Marxist Feminist Strategies for Revolutionary Organization in Iran and Turkey
18.00 – 18.30 COFFEE BREAK
18.30 – 20.00 PUBLIC SESSION
Decolonise bodies, territories and practices
with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Dima Mohammed and Ana Cristina Pereira (Kitty Furtado)
in the Auditorium
DAY 2 – 22nd November 2025
09.00 – 11.00 – PLENARY
Decolonialism is not a metaphor
with Sara Araújo, Amanda Hurtado Garcéz, Sílvia Roque and Rita Alsalaq
Workshop: Feminist and political self-defence
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 13.00 – PANEL ROUND 2
2a APPROPRIATION OF WOMEN’S BODIES IN WAR AND PEACE
Mariza Nanou; Safe Spaces in Contemporary Feminist Movements: A Marxist Reading
Octavia Quiroga; Capitalism of the North, femicide of the South
Federica Stagni, Cosmo M. Esposito, Ludovica Micalizzi; Unseen, Not Unheard: Anonymous reports of sexual violence and the limits of Transformative Justice
Lorena Amorelli, Helena Oliveira, Ilana Lemos de Paiva, Verônica Maria Ferreira; Giving body to life: articulations on reproductive control, nationalism and social policies in Brazil
2b SOCIAL REPRODUCTION THEORY AND FEMINIST ECONOMY
Gabriela Figueira, Beatriz Vilaça, Gabriela Azevedo, Theory of Social Reproduction and the unified analysis of differences
Fernanda Moscoso; Towards a feminist characterisation of Latin America’s dependent condition: exploring the dialogue between feminist Marxisms of social reproduction and Marxist dependency theory
Kyriaki Lampropoulou; Care and social reproduction: Parallel and opposite discourses?
Ainhoa Ozaeta; Interdependence and personal empowerment for a feminist and territorial contribution
2c INTERSECTION BETWEEN FEMINISM AND CLASS SUBJECTIVATION UNDER A DECOLONIAL LENS
Prakriti Prabhat Sharan; The Contentious Subject of Indian Feminist Praxis
Khayaat Fakier; María Guadalupe Rivera Garay; Paulo Gilberto Rescher; Feminist Ruptures Across South Africa, Brazil, and Mexico
Natalia Santos Orozco; Communality and transdisciplinarity as practices for a decolonising education
Tamara Caraus; Rosa Luxemburg Decolonising Method
2d INVISIBLE CITIES
Paula Freire Santoro; The gentrified access to the urban land
Sara Mengato; Exploring urban informality through a gender perspective: inhabiting and working informality in Valparaíso, Chile
Ioanna Petridou; The gendered everyday production of public space. Encounters of migrant women. The case of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Martina Facincani; Housing Struggles and Feminist Perspectives: Rethinking the Politics of Home
2e CONFRONTING GREENWASHING THROUGH LABOUR
Zeynep Nettekoven; Decarbonization of the German Automotive Industry: Gendered Impacts on Labor and Alternative Discourses of Transformation
Eleonora Gea Piccardi, Stefania Barca; Care work and the politics of post-carbon transition: reflections from an international workers’ inquiry process
Ranjana Padhi; Confronting Extractive Capitalism: The Struggle for the Commons in East India
Conversation circle:
Coletivo Afreketê; Strengths and challenges of collective feminist practice in Porto
13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.30 – 16.00 – PANEL ROUND 3
3a CRIATIVE RESISTANCE AND ARTIVISM E O ARTIVISMO AS TOOLS OF EMANCIPATION
Melina Scheuermann, Marcela Pedersen; How to see whiteness? Possibilities and complexities of an anti-racist and feminist education based on visual culture
Petra Šarin; Lisbon and Zagreb: silencing the voiceless
Daniela Carvajal Enríquez, Erandi Villavicencio; Collective political embroidery as practice of resistance, memory and emancipation
Melissa Moralli; Riding the Nepantla, or How to Smash the Aesthetic Violence on Human Mobility in the Anthropocene
3b QUEER MARXISM AND THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER SOCIAL CRITICISM
Héloïse Russel-Holland; ‘Lesbianism and Domestic Labour Division: A Materialist Feminist Perspective
Neha Naqvi, Zayan; Queering Circles of Solidarity: Chosen Families at the Crossroads of Caste Realities in India
lter Emese, Mikula Flóra, Móczár Maja Lejla; The Family as an Economic Unit: Anti-Gender Politics and the Ideological Obscuring of Capitalist Reproduction
3c DIVERSITY AS A PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE
Mille van der Spoel, Donya Ahmadi; Duo Penotti Feminism: How Strategic White Womanhood is Deployed to Avoid Accountability in the Context of (Anti-)Racism
Ida Nikou, Asma Abdi; Gendered Labor Regimes and the Making of the Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising: Financialization, Informality and Imperialism in Iran
Karolina Hrga, Andrea Vuljević; Ableist and speciesist regimes in capitalism
3d RECLAIMING CARE WORK AS ESSENTIAL WORK
Katarina da Silva; External events (of the system) in the long-term care model in Portugal
Beatriz Realinho; National Care Service
Nadine Gerner, Lola Fischer-Irmler; Materialist-feminist and eco-socialist perspectives on the movement for the socialization of care work in Berlin
Sara Canha, Madalena Ferreira e Ester Oliveira; From fieldwork to transformation: critical reflections on investigating care and social movements
3e REPRODUCTIVE POLICIES AND STATE CONTROL
Athena Michalakea, Georgios Papanicolaou; Rescue, Repress, Repeat: State, Carceral Feminism, and the War on Sex Work in Greece
Nabeelah Fife, Leza Soldaat; Racialised Capitalism, Erotic Capital, and the Contradictions of Sex Work in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Nadia Janiczak, Teresa Fazan; Propertization as a Gordian Knot. From Subjectivity as Possession, towards Abolitionist Horizons
Cecilia Iula; Gestational Surrogacy is Work
Workshop:
Hind Abushkhadim; The Struggle of Palestinian Women Under Occupation: Collective Resilience and Resistance
15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.30 – PLENARY
Bodies and Labour
ndrea Peniche, Ankica Čakardić, Ciocia Wienia activist and Camila Lobo
Book presentations with debate
with Gisela Carrasco-Miró and Catarina Isabel Martins
– Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures
– Mulheres, Raça e Etnicidades. Introdução aos Feminismos Decoloniais/Women, Race and Ethnicities. An Introduction to Decolonial Feminisms
DAY 3 – 23rd NOVEMBER 2025
09.30 – 11.00 – PANEL ROUND 4
4a LAND AGAINST CAPITAL
Magdalena Siemaszko; Practices of Power and Unruly Alliances of Białowieża Forest: Natureculture Strategies for Forming Agency after the Conflict Over Logging
Anjana Hemanth Kumar; Cashew Women vs Lotos-eaters: An Illustration on Social Reproduction in Cashew Factories in Contemporary Kerala, India
Navpreet Kaur; Women and the Agrarian Question: A Comparative Study of Capitalist and Peasant Agriculture in Rajasthan (India)
Aman Bardia; Caste, Care, and Capital: Anti-Capitalist Ruptures in Gujarat’s Agrarian Transformation
4b FEMINISM AS AN ANTI-MILITARIST PRAXIS FOR A JUST PEACE
Anna Guerini; Reproduction, labor, value. A genealogy to challenge the global war regime
Javiera Manzi; Anti-fascism, disarmament and decolonisation: Olga Poblete and the horizons of feminist activism for peace
Julia Cámara; War on war: the role of socialist women and the international workers’ movement in the struggle against rearmament
Carolina Anjos; From Spanish Colonialism to Moroccan Occupation: How Colonial Capitalism Shapes the Role of Sahrawi Women Today
4c CARE AND CONTRADICTIONS: EXPLOITATION AND RESISTANCE
Evgenia Mavridi; Care as a Contested Terrain: Navigating the Struggle Between Exploitation and Resistance
Oksana Dutchak; Hierarchies of Care and Social Reproduction in Ukraine before and during the War
Mili Tölkkö, Tiina Sandberg; The Crisis of Care from the Perspective of Finnish Welfare State
Ana Luiza Miranda; From exploited labour to labour for love: rethinking domestic work and the real metaphysics of capitalism through undocumented immigrant women
4d ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND FEMINIST RESISTANCE
Vânia Gala; Passa Folhas Or Passing leaves through the Body and Plotting
Swati Simha; Bandits and Ballads – Narrative poems at the interstices of Brahminism and Colonialism
Zuzanna Kubiak; Reinventing Slavic culture through contemporary art practice. Ecofeminist approach
Venla Järvensivu; Counter-choreographies within the spaces of dance and beyond
4e A MATERIALISTIC CRITIQUE ON DIFFERENCE AND PRACTICE OF OTHERING
Helena Carla Gonçalo Ferreira; Beyond the Black Box: A Feminist-Marxist Analysis of Generative AI and the Need for Critical-Transformative Positioning
Andrea Prizia; Beyond difference (and gender)? A possible materialist critique of the notion of difference
Tjaša Cankar; How can Yugoslav Marxists and Marxist feminists inform our struggles today?
Gabriele Michalitsch; “Suicidal Empathy”: Psychopolitical Foundations of Colonial Ways of Thinking
Workshop:
Giulia Piazza, Mafalda Araújo, Federica Romeo; Care spaces: oppression and practices of resistance
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-13.00 – PANEL ROUND 5
5a CHALLENGING SOCIAL ROLES THROUGH ART
Rhiannon Lockley; Reproduction and Rhythms of Resistance: Education Activism as Reproductive Labour
Joana Monbaron; Interrogating Autonomy: Art and Social Reproduction Theory
Maria Giulia Pinheiro; Aesthetic Research in Dramatic Writing Based on the Work of Female Artists — The Feminist Dramaturgy Centre (NDF)
Marina Gallo; Between Representations and Presentations: the female body as language, resistance and pleasure
5b OUR BODIES, OUR RULES
Aarna Dixit; Reproducting the Nation: Sex Selection and National Politics in India
Selen Göbelez; Bio-Techno Colonization of Women’s Bodies and Commodification of Childbirth in Turkey
Kathrin Flach Gomez; Total criminalisation of abortion in El Salvador: an intersectional analysis from a feminist and decolonial perspective
Angélica Antonechen Colombo; State, capital and social reproduction: criminalisation of abortion and anti-gender agenda in Brazil
5c DESTABILISING THEORY TO WIDEN HORIZONS
Mariana Teixeira; Conversion, Inversion, or Subversion: Assessing Different Strategies to Decolonize the Canon
Hugo Monteiro; The Other Side of Robinson’s Island. Vulnerability, care and interdependence in the critique of patriarchal citizenship
Klára Soukupová; From resources to comrades: re-thinking human-animal labour relations
Nena Pawletko, Zofia Zatorska; Dwelling after Family
5d FACING THE LIBERAL FEMINISM TRAPS
Helena Oliveira, Lorena Amorelli Reinato, Ilana Lemos de Paiva; Gendered poltical violence against those who dared to defy the structures
Ludovica Berlingieri; Intersectionality and the law: a chance to go beyond liberal rights framework
Băcilă Marcu-Nicolae, Bogdan-Andrei Lungu; The Agony of Romanian Neoliberalism: Reimagining Socialist Feminist Politics in the Face of Fascist Insurrection
Victòria Belda Valera; A new political economy critique: thinking capitalism with Silvia Federici and Leopoldina Fortunati
5e OUR LIVES ARE NOT BATTLEFIELDS
Marina Iaroslavtseva; The Art of Violence: Contemporary Russian Cinema as a Mirror of the Authoritarian Regime
Marina Vinnik; Limits of solidarity: feminist networks of the post-Soviet space in the times of war
Sudha Rawat; Tamil Women’s Bodies as a Site of War: Sexual Violence, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Sri Lankan Civil War
Carolina Caccetta; Invisible Labor and Institutional Violence: A Feminist Materialist Analysis of Mothers of Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Southern Italy
Workshop:
Amada Vollbert, Selene Aldana; Feminist fanzine as a combative press, militant material and political education tool
13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.30 – 16.00 – CLOSING SESSION
with Heidi Ambrosch (transform!europe), Maria Manuel Rola (Cultra), Sandra Cunha (Scientific Committee 2025) and Angelina Giannopoulou (Scientific Committee 2027)
in the Auditorium