Feminist economics is everything. The revolution is now! | Lebohang Pheko | TEDxLytteltonWomen

This talk is an exploration of a feminist centred world, where women's labour, women's energy, women's contributions to the economy are not a side event but the main event. The talk is an invitation to view the economic world as a place of struggle and dispossession, a place of unearned male privilege must be displaced by African women's presence.  GDP cannot count us, we need new numbers and new models. We need a  revolution Lebohang Liepollo Pheko is a public intellectual, writer, scholar activist , academic, policy analyst , lecturer and public speaker. Pheko has twenty years of experience as a strategic thinker and change agent across various sectors and this has taken her across the world lending technical, political and intellectual support to institutions and movements. Lebohang has a deep commitment to shaping change in the economy , in social policy , in states and is centred in Afrikan feminist thinking , Black liberation theology and new ideas on Afrikan States. She is proudly associated with the cohort of impatient and annoyed women who are reimagining the world and placing demands for new economics, new states, new politics that centre our realities.
Pheko is a founder and Senior Research Fellow of a think tank called Trade Collective that deals with international trade, the political economy and feminist economics in relation to the Global South. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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