Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone: On Friendship and Feminist Organising
Women tend to take special care of their relationships with one another. Yet until the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s few accounts of friendship’s importance for women existed. Building on this revaluation of women’s affectionate bonds, this podcast explores friendship as a vital force in feminist organising, community-building, and practices of mutual care.
The podcast explores feminist understandings of friendship as a plural space of interaction through which women have found mediation between themselves and the public domain. It reflects on how bonds of friendship nurture acts of alliance, resistance, and reciprocity, in which participants both listen and feel heard, see and are seen.
Recorded at the end of year marked by Covid-19, during which many people have felt isolated and anxious, “Nothing worth doing is done alone” reconsiders the importance of sharing and holding space, collective thinking and reading. It also celebrates the sheer pleasure of being together.
“Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone” was commissioned by Annette Hans, Marie Kuhn, and Anne Meerpohl as part of See U th3re - Dialogue between Windows, a 2020-2021 collaboration between Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof and HFBK Hamburg (the Hamburg art school) on visibility, friendship, feminism, organization and care.
