GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

What courses are other people here taking? Any that you would recommend that have been helpful for your work... whether that's paid work, or work you do at home with your family / community?

I agree with the core feminist idea that 'the personal is political' and things like cooking, cleaning, laundry, and doing the relational work and emotional caregiving that so many of us do bring up issues of division of labour, the gendering of chores, and economic issues (should I buy a clothes washing machine, costly plus there's a water bill, or should I go to the laundromat which involves travel (bus, car, taxi, or foot...), more heavy lifting, need to get coins, carry soap, plus the time cost is not the same as having one at home). All of the things we do can benefit from the problem analysis skills that we build in our everyday lives, living under disaster capitalism.

I saw a course on here about care work, which I would really like to take at some point. While I was at university doing my Masters degree, I met a friend who was doing her work on political and philosophical issues related to the care economy, and she was drawing on her experiences of doing cleaning at a hotel/resort in Hawaii. It was really fascinating to talk with her about it, and I would love to learn more! The care economy can be so fraught with serious and dangerous gendered issues.

Tried to edit my above comment to include some of this, but the 30 minute time frame for editing had ended! Looking forward to seeing what else gets posted in the forum. One thing I found interesting when I was using auto translate on Google for one of the Spanish comments was that it didn't translate the phrase 'safe spaces for all people' and left that in the original. I wonder if that's because it's considered a specialized technical phrase related to philosophies of gender, or maybe if it has something to do with big tech aligning themselves with current global trends that are shifting more and more towards outright blatant fascism. 

I know in Canada, there are a lot of big name texts that don't get translated into French publications at all, or else much later than the English publications (Judith Butler's Gender Trouble comes to mind, for example), and maybe this is similar in other languages, too, and as a result, the auto translations don't get fed the same info in other languages and so they aren't able to reliably translate some things. 

Language... always an interesting topic for me! :)