Lyn Ossome

"Patriarchy is not an archaic relic but a living, breathing structure that is co-constitutive with capitalist exploitation. The crisis of social reproduction we see today is a direct result of this partnership."

"The labor that produces life—the cooking, cleaning, caring, and nurturing—is the invisible infrastructure upon which all other 'productive' economic activity depends. To ignore it is not just an oversight; it is an ideological commitment."

"Our political imaginations have been captured by the very structures we seek to dismantle. A feminist politics must be, first and foremost, a project of decolonizing our desires for power and freedom."

"Lyn Ossome's work relentlessly exposes the gendered fault lines of capitalist accumulation in Africa. She forces us to see that the 'economy' cannot be understood without centering the violence and valorization of social reproduction."