Helen Hester
@HelenHester
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Xenofeminist. Haircut enthusiast. Curator @femfutprog. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
London
Joined May 2011
Talking about the myths and perils of commercial co-living as part of Weird Economies' 'Out of Space? London Financescapes' series. Saturday 24th May, 11-5pm at Pelican House, Bethnal Green. Full details for the series here:
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RT @feminiscity: Tomorrow! Organized by the Political Economy Centre (University of Manchester): .
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RT @cececebe: La possibilitat d’establir relacions afectives amb la tecnologia domèstica planteja nous dilemes i interrogants. 💖🤖 "Tecnodo….
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Who wore it best? (Slavoj)
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RT @Autonomy_Inst: 🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK'. The UK needs a strong living stan….
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If you're curious about our new MA in Digital Media, Culture & Economy, come by the UWL open day tomorrow & I'll tell you all about it! I'm there until noon, waiting to chat about labour & ownership in a digital age.
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A new article by myself and @w_stronge, rejecting those neoliberal, up-by-your-boot-straps narratives that equate self-reliance with moral worth.
Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society.
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RT @bencsmoke: no matter how hard certain well funded groups of bigots try, you cannot legislate an entire group of people out of existence….
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RT @revsoc21: EMERGENCY DEMO - COME OUT FOR TRANS LIBERATION. Come together with trans organisations, unions, and more for a community-focu….
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If you're considering a taught PG programme, please do get in touch/ apply. It's going to be challenging and interesting and hopefully a lot of fun.
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Genuinely excited to be leading this new Master's programme at the University of West London. It concentrates on issues of work and ownership in a digital age, and will really allow me to integrate my research and my teaching.
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RT @BloomsburyPhilo: New on the blog: a Q&A with @HelenHester and @w_stronge on post-work theory and what the future of work could look lik….
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RT @LizaJThompson: #slavojzizek is Post-Work . @HelenHester @w_stronge @BloomsburyPhilo @BloomsburyBooks
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RT @cajanegraedit: Amigxs de #Bilbao:. El próximo jueves 20/3 a las 18:00, @HelenHester en Bizkaia Aretoa de la UPV/EHU, para participar de….
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Transforming the Politics of Housing: an hour of conversation between myself and Alva Gotby.
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As we put it in the book, 'making life intolerable outside of employment is a long-standing crutch of modern breadwinner-focused regimes and the fight against it is a fight for fewer conditions, greater universality and guaranteed security.'.
Gunning for those outside the labour market has a long history throughout capitalism (it's even part of its early history). This is the gravitational pull for all governments: coerce the unemployed, and cover it with comms (usually some form of the "work ethic"). Little thread. .
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