Our hearts get broken. In romantic relationships, in our families, in our organizations and movements, the hurt is real. Raising resources is not easy. Building alliances and deepening relationships takes time. The lessons come most often through adversity.
The year continues on and the year seems to get more and more difficult to manoeuvre. From terrorism, to protests, to taxes, to paying the rent to hating your boss. It would seem that everyday there is some new cluster storm to deal with and as a black woman there is always just that little extra element of misogynoir flavour to add to the mix.
African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent.
This article discusses what women from the South Asian region, and the global South at large, want from a feminist Internet. It draws heavily from experiences acquired during the work that the Digital Rights Foundation does.
The Black Feminisms Forum is a space unlike any I’ve ever been a part of. There aren’t words to describe the feeling of sitting in a room full of Black women from across the world, all speaking different languages, all hailing from different contexts, all here and present in one space with the fire of our different feminisms and activisms in our bellies.
The Forum opened with an invitation for us all to collectively celebrate our victories, acknowledge our wounds, and co-create the futures we aspire to.
- “Tell me what a feminist looks like?”
- “This is what a feminist looks like!”
The “this” in question is a room full of healers, activists, academics, storytellers, truthsayers and high priestesses at the Opening Plenary for the 13th AWID International Forum in Bahia, Brazil.
The 13th AWID International Forum began on Thursday with an opening plenary to the tune of Bahian music, song and dance to honor Oxum, orisha of Brazilian hospitality, followed by inspiring presentations and questions posed by guest panelists on the topic of “our current realities.”
This is a story about the present, told as the past, from the gaze of the future. Imagine you have in your hands a knot, and the knot carries one story, about a person named Zaitun, who is trying to understand her world, and who wants to change it into something that is a little less ugly, a little less distorted, a little less painful.
The opening plenary of day three of the 13th International AWID Forum began with a shift in tone. Where the first two days of the Forum had focused on analyzing our current realities and radically disrupting and expanding our current movement frameworks, facilitators of the third opening plenary asked participants to do something different.