ABSTRACT
Drawing on marxist feminist theorists, like Federici or J.K. Gibson-Graham, I review contemporary and historical examples of collective forms living that tackle questions of reproductive labour as well as the shape and definition of a kitchen. Examples will include: the nowadays forgotten one-kitchen building (Einküchenhaus) that was discussed and tested by socialist feminists as well as middle class reformists in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century; Türkis Rosa Lila Villa, a self-administered queer co-housing project and community centre for gay, lesbian and trans people in Vienna founded in 1982; a recently realised co-housing project (Baugruppe) in Vienna, comprised of 40 housing units and an 80sqm communal kitchen. Assembling these examples from different times and contexts, I will carve out the shifts and continuities in the aspirations behind them; in the resistances they met and meet; as well as in the contradictions running through them.
