Montanelli: el sujeto imprevisto de la huelga feminista

Good evening. This video is about Montanelli's text, and we want to work here on the concept of the unforeseen subject, a concept she uses to analyze the women's strike that took place on March 8, 2017. While it was a global phenomenon, she discusses it from the perspective of Italy, as she is an Italian activist. It was

a day without us, where various workers joined, both those employed and those outside the labor market, dedicated to reproductive work—that is, different types of women who joined this strike. While the strike was fundamentally against patriarchal violence, what does patriarchal violence mean? How does it manifest itself? And what was this strike against? Well, femicide, for example, neoliberal exploitation,

disciplinary mechanisms, the brutal control of bodies across all boundaries—the boundaries of meaning that we have already seen, such as man-woman, but also geographical boundaries, sexism, all phobias, homosexuality, trans sexuality, social hierarchies, and all types of discrimination. Gender discrimination, racial discrimination, discrimination based on sexual orientation—all types of discrimination—we must consider that all this patriarchal violence, which is

precisely a feature of this patriarchal order, is linked to capitalism. Therefore, this strike is not only against the patriarchal order but also against the capitalist system. On this occasion, the women in this strike appropriate an instrument that has been a labor union and transform it, and that is why we speak of an

unforeseen subject. This feminist tide that emerges is precisely this unforeseen subject, and it is clearly a political subject, a subject that makes demands. This unforeseen subject, this feminist tide, how can we characterize it? It is a multitude, but it is a differentiated multitude, meaning a differentiated multitude that is situated, constituted by different