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What is WoCo?
The Women’s Collective is a horizontal autonomous organising space for radically leftwing feminist activism. We are one of the most radical and active campus feminist collectives in the country. WoCo has organised at the University of Sydney for over 50 years, primarily focusing on activism against sexual violence on and off campus, and for abortion access and reproductive justice. We fight to free all who suffer under patriarchy.
the foster care system that continues the Stolen Generation to this day. First Nations women also bear the brunt of state sanctioned destruction of sacred country, such as the sacred birthing trees of the Djab Wurrung people. There is no feminist justice without Indigenous justice and decolonisation.
We are an unapologetically abolitionist and anticapitalist collective that fights for true liberation from police, prisons, and capitalist exploitation. As a collective which meets and works on the It is at these intersections where the worst stolen land of the Gadigal people of the Eora patriarchal violence resides. WoCo does not Nation, in a colonial state of ongoing racial settle for neoliberal or reformist incremental violence, we must centre Indigenous justice reforms, and actively organises against carceral in our fight for feminist justice. WoCo fights feminism in our fight for true liberation from alongside the First Nations peoples of Warrang patriarchy, imperialism, and capitalism. and the many other countries that make up this land to decolonise the illegitimate settler society of so-called ‘australia’. Indigenous women are at the forefront of colonial and patriarchal violence What is carceral feminism? as the fastest growing prison population in the Carceral feminism seeks to expand the power world, and face deeply gendered state violence as of police and prison systems in response to mothers and community caretakers of children sexual violence and domestic violence. Carceral who are incarcerated, brutalised, or murdered by feminism seeks justice for victim-survivors in the racist police and prison systems, or stolen by the colonial criminal system that is itself a site of gendered violence. Police are often perpetrators of violence, and prisons are inherently violent, themselves having high rates of sexual violence. A focus on punishment does not centre victimsurvivors’ healing, and ignores the underlying issues driving gendered violence.
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