Red Love: a reader on Alexandra Kollontai
<p>Conversation with editors Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, and Joanna Warsza following a postponed book launch at e-flux for <em>Red Love: a reader on Alexandra Kollontai</em>, presented by CuratorLab at Konstfack University, Tensta konsthall, Cabinet and Sternberg Press.</p> <p><strong><em>Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai</em></strong><br /> Alexandra Kollontai was a Bolshevik revolutionary, and after the 1917 October revolution the people’s commissar of social and one of the first female ambassadors in the world. She worked to introduce crucial reforms for women’s liberation: such as abortion rights, secularized marriage, and for paid maternity leave; and considered “comradely love” to be a political force. <em>Red Love</em> is the reader devoted to her legacy stemming from research by CuratorLab at Konstfack University in Stockholm and Tensta konsthall, accompanying Dora García’s exhibition back in 2018. The conversation presents this historical figure, her involvement in politics and some of her writings and asks how to read Kollontai’s vision of love today and relate it to current feminist struggles?</p>
Authors: Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, Joanna Warsza
Subject: Alexandra Kollontai
Part of: e-flux podcast