Autonomy’s Feminist Futures Programme is a theory and policy laboratory that seeks to develop visions of the future that can orientate our political and economic actions today.

It acts as a node for academics, politicians, research organisations and activists interested in the economic, technological and political questions that contemporary feminism poses.

The Feminist Futures Programme (FFP)

Dissemination

Via its digital platform, the FFP will showcase ideas from both new and established feminist voices. With detailed critical attention to the meaning of work, and to the gender politics surrounding what counts as work in the first place, it will regularly publish accessible, engaging, and intellectually rigorous research on a variety of relevant topics.

Invention

The FFP will offer training materials, media tool kits, and participatory gender audits for groups and organisations who are looking to critically assess and transform their institutional cultures in the name of more equitable working environments. Furthermore, the creation and publication of original research on the topic of gender and work will be crucial to the development of the programme. This will take the form of reports, position pieces, long-read articles, literature reviews, rapid evidence assessments, blog posts, interviews with external experts, and more.

Collaboration

The programme will act to bring together researchers from different disciplines and traditions in order to address issues relating to gender and the future of work.

Gender and work today: leading economists answer 4 big questions as part of FFP's launch

Read their weekly responses by clicking on the below tiles:

Read our FFP reports, 'Working Nights' and 'The Insecure Economy':

Watch our latest video series on the UK's care crisis – and how to fix it – in collaboration with OpenDemocracy

Helen Hester

Helen leads our Feminist Futures Programme. She is Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London. Her research interests include technofeminism, social reproduction, and post-work politics, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Xenofeminism (Polity, 2018), and After Work: The Politics of Free Time (Verso, forthcoming, with Nick Srnicek)

Jack Kellam

Jack is a Researcher at Autonomy, and is the editor and manager of the Feminist Futures Programme.

Read more Feminist Futures material below:

Autonomy’s Feminist Futures Programme is a collaboration between Autonomy and the University of West London.