El marco de referencia de las Realidades Feministas en el Foro se despliega a través de seis ejes temáticos. Cada uno coloca en un lugar central las realidades, experiencias y visiones feministas, dentro del continuum que va de la resistencia a las propuestas, las luchas y las alternativas.

Queremos explorar juntxs de qué están hechas nuestras realidades feministas y qué es lo que les permite florecer en las diferentes esferas de nuestras vidas. Estas realidades pueden ser formas ya muy desarrolladas de vivir, sueños e ideas que están tomando forma o experiencias y momentos valiosos. 

Los ejes temáticos no son compartimentos aislados sino más bien envases que guardan las actividades a desarrollarse en el Foro y que están abiertos, comunicados entre sí. Imaginamos que muchas actividades tendrán lugar allí donde estos ejes temáticos - así como diferentes luchas, comunidades y movimientos -  se entrecruzan. Las descripciones que compartimos a continuación son preliminares y continuarán enriqueciéndose a medida que continúe nuestro recorrido por las Realidades Feministas.

Recursos para comunidades, movimientos y justicia económica

Este eje temático coloca en primer plano las preguntas acerca de cómo nosotrxs - en tanto personas, comunidades y movimientos - satisfacemos nuestras necesidades básicas y garantizamos los recursos que necesitamos para vivir en plenitud, priorizando el cuidado de las personas y la naturaleza. Cuando hablamos de recursos nos referimos a los alimentos, el agua, el aire puro y también el dinero, el trabajo, la información, el conocimiento, el tiempo y otros.

Partiremos de las resistencias feministas al sistema económico dominante de explotación y extractivismo para subrayar propuestas, experiencias y prácticas feministas contundentes e inspiradoras para organizar nuestra vida económica y social. Algunas de las temáticas a explorar son la soberanía alimentaria y de las semillas, las miradas feministas acerca del trabajo y el empleo, o los sistemas justos y sostenibles de comercio. Con valentía abordaremos las contradicciones que resultan de nuestra necesidad de sobrevivir en sistemas económicos opresivos.

Este eje temático posiciona el financiamiento y los recursos para las organizaciones y los movimientos dentro de un análisis feminista más amplio de la justicia económica y la generación de la riqueza. Analizaremos cómo mover recursos para que lleguen adonde resultan necesarios a través de la justicia fiscal, propuestas como el ingreso universal, diferentes modelos de filantropía y la generación autónoma y creativa de recursos para los movimientos.

Gobernanza, rendición de cuentas y justicia

Queremos construir nuevas visiones y difundir las realidades y experiencias ya existentes de gobernanza, justicia y rendición de cuentas feministas. Frente a la crisis global y al auge de los fascismos y los fundamentalismos, este eje temático le da un lugar central a modelos, prácticas e ideas feministas, radicales y emancipatorias para organizar la sociedad y la vida política desde el nivel local al global.

En este eje temático exploraremos cómo es la gobernanza feminista, por ejemplo a través de experiencias de municipalismo, la construcción de identidades por fuera de las naciones-estados o nuestras miradas acerca del multilateralismo. Intercambiaremos experiencias de procesos de justicia y rendición de cuentas en nuestras comunidades, organizaciones y movimientos, que incluyen modelos de justicia restaurativa, comunitaria y transformadora que rechazan la violencia estatal y el complejo carcelario-industrial.

También le daremos protagonismo a las experiencias de desplazamiento, migración y búsqueda de refugio, así como a los procesos de organización feminista en procura de un mundo sin regímenes de fronteras letales: un mundo donde el movimiento sea libre y los recorridos posibles nos apasionen.

Realidades digitales

El rol de la tecnología en nuestras vidas es cada vez mayor y la línea entre las realidades virtuales y no virtuales se está borrando. Lxs feministas utilizamos ampliamente las tecnologías y los espacios virtuales para construir comunidades, aprender unxs de otrxs y movilizarnos para la acción. Con los espacios virtuales podemos expandir los límites de nuestro mundo físico. Pero esto tiene un costado problemático: las comunicaciones digitales son cada vez más propiedad de empresas cuya rendición de cuentas frente a lxs usuarixs es mínima. La minería de datos, la vigilancia y los quiebres en la seguridad de la información se han convertido en la norma, junto con la violencia y el acoso en línea.

En este eje exploraremos las oportunidades y desafíos feministas dentro de las realidades digitales. Estudiaremos las alternativas a las plataformas de propiedad privada que dominan el paisaje digital, así como estrategias para movernos en espacios digitales cuidando nuestro bienestar y cómo usar la tecnología para superar desafíos en términos de accesibilidad. También descubriremos el potencial de la tecnología en la esfera del placer, la confianza y los vínculos.

Cuerpos, placer y bienestar

Albergamos realidades feministas también dentro nuestro: son nuestras experiencias corporizadas. Controlar nuestro trabajo, nuestros desplazamientos, nuestra reproducción y nuestra sexualidad continúa siendo un elemento central para las estructuras patriarcales, cisheteronormativas y capitalistas. Para hacer frente a esa opresión, personas de distintos géneros, sexualidades y capacidades creamos espacios y subculturas de encuentro, de alegría, de cuidado, de placer y de profunda valoración de nosotrxs mismxs y de cada unx de lxs otrxs. 

En este eje temáticos exploraremos múltiples ideas, narrativas, imaginarios y expresiones culturales de consentimiento, agencia y deseo desde las miradas de las mujeres, las personas trans, no binaries, intersex y que de distintas maneras cuestionan los mandatos de género en diversas sociedades y culturas.

Intercambiaremos experiencias sobre nuestros triunfos en cuanto a derechos y justicia reproductiva, además de desarrollar cuáles son las prácticas sociales que habilitan y respetan la autonomía, la integridad y la libertad corporales. Este eje temático vincula entre sí diferentes luchas y movimientos para que cada uno pueda incorporar las percepciones y experiencias de bienestar y placer de los otros. 

El planeta y los seres vivientes

Imagínense un planeta feminista. ¿Cómo se escucha el agua? ¿Cómo huele el aire? ¿Cómo se siente la tierra al tocarla? ¿Cuál es la relación entre el planeta y sus seres vivos, incluyendo a la especie humana? Las realidades feministas son realidades de justicia ambiental y climática. Las luchas feministas, indígenas, decoloniales y ecológicas a menudo surgen de visiones y relaciones entre las personas y la naturaleza que son transformadoras.
Este eje está centrado en el bienestar de nuestro planeta y reflexiona acerca de cómo la especie humana ha interactuado con el planeta y lo ha modificado. Nos proponemos explorar aspectos de los conocimientos tradicionales y de la biodiversidad como aportes para sostener un planeta feminista y aprender acerca de prácticas e iniciativas feministas sobre decrecimiento, bienes comunes, modelos de economías alternativas/paralelas, agroecología, soberanía alimentaria y energética.

Cómo nos organizamos lxs feministas

Si bien pensamos que todos los ejes temáticos están relacionados, este es verdaderamente transversal por eso lxs invitamos a incorporar la dimensión de lo organizativo a la actividad que propongan, sin importar con qué eje/s se relaciona.

¿Cómo nos estamos organizando lxs feministas en el mundo de hoy? Esta pregunta nos lleva a prestarle atención a actores, dinámicas de poder, recursos y liderazgo; a las economías en las que estamos inmersxs; a lo que consideramos justicia y rendición de cuentas; a la era digital; a nuestras experiencias de autonomía, bienestar y cuidado colectivo. En todos los ejes temáticos esperamos crear espacios para una reflexión sincera sobre la distribución de poder y recursos y las negociaciones en torno a ellos en nuestros movimientos.

El Foro es un proceso colaborativo

El Foro es más que una reunión de cuatro días. Es una estación en un recorrido más largo para fortalecer nuestros movimientos en torno a la noción de Realidades Feministas que ya ha comenzado y que continuará más allá de las fechas del Foro.

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Pour chaque Forum de l’AWID, nous lançons un appel à contributions auprès d’une grande variété de mouvements féministes et de justice sociale. Ces derniers proposent des activités et créent ainsi le programme du Forum.  

Pour le 14ème Forum international de l’AWID, nous voulons faire en sorte que le programme soit réellement représentatif de la diversité des mouvements. Voilà pourquoi nous mettons en place une nouvelle façon engageante de choisir les propositions qui feront émerger le programme final du Forum, à savoir : le Processus de sélection participative (PSP). 

Qu’est-ce que le Processus de sélection participative (PSP)? 

Le Processus de sélection participative constitue l’étape finale dans l’examen des propositions d’activités, et leur sélection, pour faire partie du programme officiel du Forum. 

Voici comment ça fonctionne :

1. Les propositions d’activités sont initialement envoyées via notre Appel à activités pour le Forum, ouvert à toute personne – groupe ou individu –  intéressée à présenter sa réalité féministe sur leForum. 
2. L’équipe de l’AWID présélectionne les activités qui, parmi toutes celles ayant été proposées, reflètent au mieux le thème du Forum et qui présentent une approche créative pour s’engager avec le public. 
3. Les activités sont ensuite examinées à nouveau et présélectionnées par les différents comités du Forum afin d’assurer une bonne diversité des régions, des mouvements et des idées. 
4. Les propositions sélectionnées sont ensuite revues et classées par individus et groupes dont les propositions ont été présélectionnées. Les propositions qui reçoivent le plus de votes de la part des autres candidat·e·s feront partie du programme final du Forum.   

Aperçu du processus de sélection d’activités dans son ensemble :

Pourquoi l’AWID a-t-elle décidé d’organiser un PSP pour les activités du 14ème Forum de l’AWID? 

Nous pensons qu’un PSP est pertinent pour le Forum, car :

• Il place les communautés qui vivent des réalités féministes, lesquelles seront illustrées et discutées lors du Forum, au cœur du processus de prise de décision.

• Il est cohérent avec notre identité et notre rôle d’organisation de soutien/accompagnement des mouvements.

• Il correspond à notre vision d’un Forum co-créé par différents mouvements féministes et de justice sociale. Ces derniers façonnent le Forum via leur participation dans les comités (contenu et méthodologie, accessibilité, activiste et pays d’accueil), créent et facilitent les activités en tant que partenaires de l’AWID et prennent également des décisions sur le Programme via le PSP.  

• Il permet de renforcer la diversité des textures qui tisseront le Forum (et des voix qui composeront le chant du Forum). Il assure d’aller au-delà de l’AWID en tant que telle et des mouvements partenaires que nous connaissons, et avec qui nous collaborons déjà. Il laisse la porte ouverte à l’inattendu.  

Comment l’AWID a-t-elle eu l’idée de créer ce PSP? 

C’est la première fois que l’AWID envisage ce type de processus.

L’idée est initialement venue de l’équipe et des co-directrices de l’AWID. Avant de s’y engager, nous avons consulté certains fonds communautaires qui mettent en place des processus de sélection participative depuis des années. On retrouve parmi eux : le jeune Fonds féministe FRIDA, le Fonds trans international, le Fonds d’Afrique de l’Est pour les minorités sexuelles et les travailleurs·ses du sexe UHAI, ainsi que le Central American Women’s Fund (Fonds d’Amérique centrale pour les femmes). Nous les avons consultés pour en savoir plus sur leurs vastes expériences et avoir leurs retours.

Acitivités pré-sélectionnées

• Autonomie Financière, le Briseur du Silence
  ORGANISATION DES FEMMES AFRICAINES DE LA DIASPORA (OFAD) ASSOCIATION LES PETITES MERES PRODADPHE ASSOCIATION AMBE KUNKO (AAK)

• Contribution des organisations féministes dans la lutte contre l'extrémisme violent au Niger
  Femmes Actions et Développement (FAD)

• Autofinancement: les femmes à l'épreuve des banques à domicile
  Rassemblement des Femmes pour le développement endogène et solidaire RAFDES

• Alimentation et souveraineté alimentaire des femmes rurales
  Association Song-taaba des Femmes Unies pour le Développement (ASFUD)

• Leaders féministes, engagées à investir la masculinité positive, dans la construction d’un nouvel ordre social équilibré, au niveau des localités de la Région du Cavally, Ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire : Comment opérer le changement des mentalités ?
  Une societe cooperative, la chefferie traditionnelle des localites, les autorites administratives et les autres associations feminines ONG Centre Solidarite "Investir dans les Filles et les Femmes

• Co-creation d'une méthodologie de marrainage
  NEGES MAWON

• Millénium d'opportunités pour la sauvegarde de la terre (MOST) par l'appui à la justice climatique des communautés locales et autochtones du bassin du Congo
  Jeunesse Congolaise pour les Nations Unies (JCNU), Association Genre et Environnement pour le Développement (AGED)

• Imaginer une politique féministe queer asiatique
  ASEAN Feminist LBQ Womxn Network Sayoni

• Soutenir l'autogestion: les doulas, les accompagnantes et les réseaux de soutien à l'avortement
  inroads

• Féminismes en ligne: Comment les femmes se réapproprient la technologie
  Feminism In India

• Un comité pour l'élimination des discriminations envers les travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe
  Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW), The International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP)

• Pour un leadership et des organisations féministes durables : partage d'expériences individuelles et collectives
  HER Fund, Institute for Women's Empowerment (IWE) ,Kalyanamita, AAF

• Réalités des Caraïbes : La radio Black Sauna
  WE-Change Jamaica

• Les lignes d'assistance téléphonique pour les femmes
  Generation Initiative for Women and Youth Network (GIWYN),Youth Network for Community and Sustainable Development (YNCSD), Community Health Rights Network (CORENET)

• La sensualité comme forme de résistance : un atelier corporel
  UHAI EASHRI

• Discothèque lesbienne d'Europe de l'Est
  Sapfo Collective

• FitcliqueAfrica: des séjours pour concrétiser des utopies féministes, guérir des traumas,  apprendre l'auto-défense
  FitcliqueAfrica (Fitclique256 Uganda Limited)

• Communication Queer pour un Internet Libre
  Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

• Votre manière de considérer la santé sexuelle et reproductive est-elle biaisée par du validisme? Des bonnes pratiques pour inclure les personnes handicapées dans ces politiques
  Asia Pacific Network of Women with Disabilities and Allies

• Décoloniser la Communication Non Violente
  API Equality-LA, Sayoni, ASEAN Feminist LBQ Womxn Network

• Des approches féministes pour engager des poursuites judiciaires contre le harcèlement au travail
  Women's Legal Centre

• Femmes en situation de conflit au Myanmar
  Women's League of Burma, Rainfall

• Espaces féministes des Carïbes, expressions créatives et pratiques spirituelles pour la transformation des communautés
  CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice

• POP-UPS : Le pouvoir juste. Des outils d'éducation populaire pour un futur féministe
  JASS/Just Associates

• NonAnonyme : Rendre les pratiques féministes de la diaspora africaine noire sur la sobriété plus "queer"

• Sorcellerie digitale: La pensée magique pour des horizons cyberféministes
  The Digital Witchcraft Institute

• Élaborer des manifestes pour les femmes : les revendications des femmes de terrain pour le changement dans la région Asie-Pacifique
  Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development

• Concevoir vos voyages astraux
  EuroNPUD, narcofeminists as a loose group

• Soins collectifs
  RENFA Rede Nacional de Feministas Antiproibicionistas

• Musique de nos mouvements
  Radical imagination

• Transformer des déchets en charbon de bois écologique
  KEMIT ECOLOGY SARL

• Soins collectifs et rébellion des mouvements féministes antiracistes dans des contextes autoritaires et violents
  CFEMEA - Feminist Center of Studies and Advisory Services, CRIOLA - black women`s organization, Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras

• Briser les carcans religieux et patriarcaux du droit de la famille qui impactent nos vies #FreeOurFamilyLaws
  Musawah

• Approche féministe pour la revendication des droits fonciers
  Badabon Sangho, APWLD

• La grève mondiale des femmes : Notre résistance, notre futur
  Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development, ESCR-Net, Women's March Global

• Pour une  « Terre Mère » inclusive
  Disability Rights Fund, Open Society Foundation

• De l'inclusion à l'infiltration : Stratégies pour créer de véritables organisations féministes intersectionnelles
  Mobility International USA (MIUSA)

• Les histoires cachées de femmes porteuses de handicaps invisibles : l'Art en action
  The Red Door, Merchants of Madness, Improving Mental Wellbeing through Art

• Partenariats publics-privés et droits humains des femmes : Leçons tirées d'études de cas de pays du Sud
  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)

• Voyage interconnecté : nos corps, notre science-fiction !
  The Interconnected Journey Project, Laboratorio de Interconectividades

• Compiler et construire : vision féministe pour contester l'ordre économique mondial dominant
  IWRAW Asia Pacific

• L'auto-publication comme acte de résistance féministe
  International Women* Space

• Bonnes pratiques de protection juridique pour les minorités sexuelles et de genre au Pakistan
  Activists Alliance Foundation, Khawja Sirah Society, Wajood Society, Wasaib Sanwaro

• Approches féministes pour lutter contre le traffic d'être humains
  IWRAW Asia Pacific, Business & Human Rights Resource Center

• Critique de l'individualisme et des politiques étatiques : mobilisation internationale contre les violences ciblées
  Masaha: Accessible Feminist Knowledge

• Décoloniser l'intimité : comment les identités queer défient les structures familiales hétéronormatives
  WOMANTRA

• Yeki Hambe - Le théatre des travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe
  Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force

• Créer une réalité féministe autochtone : Honorer le féminin sacré et ouvrir de nouvelles voies pour les femmes autochtones
  Cultural Survival, International Funders in Indigenous Peoples

• Femmes brésiliennes contre la prohibition
  Mulheres Cannabicas, Tulipas do Cerrado

• Commission pour la vérité féministe noire : tenir compte des injustice pour révolutionner le féminisme intersectionnel
  Black Women in Development

• Le soin communautaire c'est aussi prendre soin de soi : les vraies histoires se racontent dans des espaces de confiance
  Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, Metzineres, Urban Survivor’s Union, Salvage women and children from drug abuse

• Pas de mouvement interdit : danser les liens entre droits sexuels et ceux des personnes handicapées et trans pour contrer la violence
  National Forum of Women with Disabilities, Autonomy foundation, Nazyk kyz

• L'impact de l'accaparemment du pouvoir par les entreprises sur les réalités féministes: développer des outils pour l'action
  ESCR-Net | Economic, Social, Cultural Rights Network

• Réimaginer le SIDA : élaborer une stratégie féministe face au VIH
  Frontline AIDS, Aidsfonds, IPPI (Indonesian Network of Women Living with HIV), UHAI-EASHRI (East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative)

• Faire progresser la justice économique pour concrétiser notre vision d'un monde féministe
  International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, ESCR-Net

• Café des travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe
  Hydra e.V.

• Approche écoféministe du changement climatique et de la sécurité alimentaire
  Umphakatsi Peace Ecovillage, Human Rights Educational Centre

• Relier les actions locales et internationales : l'expérience d'une mobilisation innovante par les travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe en Europe
  International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, STRASS - French Sex Worker Union, APROSEX, Red Edition

• Faire l'expérience d'une innovation technologique qui peut renforce notre sécurité lorsque nous circulons dans l'espace public
  Soul City Institute for Social Justice, Safetipin, Womanity Foundation

• Les hiérarchies dans nos organisations sont-elles NON-féministes?
  Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya National, Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

• Nous sommes tous et toutes différent.e.s mais nous partageons des valeurs communes
  UNWUD (Ukrainian network of women who use drugs), JurFem Association, Women's Prospects

• Un monde sans classes
  Bunge La Wamama Mashinani (Grassroots Women's Parliament)

• Les femmes renforcent le pouvoir des communautés
  Institute for Women's Empowerment (IWE), Solidaritas Perempuan, ASEC Indonesia, Komunitas Swabina Pedesaan Salassae (KSPS)

• Organisations féministes et leadership transformationnel : Les travailleuses en Amérique latine créent un mouvement ouvrier féministe
  Solidarity Center

• Féminisme et handicap : théatre participatif pour décoloniser les récits qui stigmatisent
  Rising Flame, National Indigenous Disabled Women Association, Nepal, The Spectrum & Union of Abilities, The Red Door

• Donner de la valeur et ancrer le repos, le plaisir et le jeu
  ATHENA Network

• Le projet de jugement féministe africain
  The Initiative for strategic Ligation in Africa (ISLA)

• Voix du front : renforcer le pouvoir collectif pour mettre fin à l'incarcération des femmes dans le monde
  International Drug Policy Consortium, Equis Justicia para las Mujeres, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Women and Harm Reduction International Network

• Activisime des jeunes queer : pour une ère de droits humains et de développement durable
  African Queer Youth Initiative, Success Capital Organisation

• Nos luttes, nos histoires, nos ressources
  Oriang Lumalaban, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan

• Asie du Sud-Est : Franchir les obstacles pour une action autochtone collective pour le climat
  Cuso International, Asia Indigenous Peoples' Pact

• Dépasser l'amour romantique pour renforcer la justice sociale et l'amour au sein de la communauté
  Eurasian Women's Network on AIDS

• Intersexualité et féminisme
  Intersex Russia

• Comprendre les expériences et les besoins en matière de santé reproductive des personnes de diverses identités de genre
  Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN)

• Conversations sur la mobilisation contre le VIH comme un espace de discrimination
  Because We Care Collaborative

• Le Manifeste des systèmes alimentaires du Mississippi
  Center for Ideas, Equity & Transformative Change, National Council of Appropriate Technology - Gulf South, MS Food Justice Collaborative, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

• Coprésidence du mouvement des femmes kurdes comme exemple de féminisme radical abouti
  The Free Women’s Movement (TJA)

• Infortunes : Marcher sur des oeufs
  Eldoret Women For Development (ELWOFOD), Mama Cash, Young women against Women Custodial Injustices Network

• LIBERTÉ

• La prison n'est pas féministe : explorer l'impact et les alternatives à la police et à l'incarcération
  Migrant Sex Workers Project, Showing Up For Racial Justice

• La société Bondo : pour des rites de passage sans mutilations en Sierra Leone
  Purposeful

• Terres et territoires libérés : Un dialogue panafricain
  Thousand Currents (USA), Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), Nous Sommes la Solution (west Africa/regional), Movilización de Mujeres Negras por el Cuidado de la Vida y los Territorios Ancestrales (Colombia), and Articulation of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (Brazil)

• L'éducation populaire et la mobilisation pour une économie féministe
  Jamaica Household Workers Union (JHWU), United for a Fair Economy, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)

• Se mobiliser avec un portefeuille vide? C'est possible !
  Breakthrough India

• Partage d'expériences autour de la création d'un réseau pour les femmes défenseuses des droits humains en Afrique de l'Est : L'expérience ougandaise
  Women Human Rights Defenders Network Uganda

• Clinique technologique
  Stichting Syrian Female Journalists Netowrk

• Construire des mouvements inspirants : Dépasser le stade de la représentation symbolique
  Rising Flame

• Justice et guérison pour les survivant·e·s de violences basées sur le genre: un débat interactif sur la justice resaurative et sur l'anatomie du pardon
  One Future Collective

• Actions collectives pour mettre un terme à la transphobie : une perspective féministe
  Asia Pacific Transgender Network, Iranti, Transgender Europe

• Femmes lesbiennes, bisexuelles et queer et demande d'asile
  Sehaq

• Avortement et handicap : vers une approche intersectionnelle fondée sur les droits humains
  Women Enabled International

• Apprendre à soutenir l'auto-gestion de communautés de personnes sans papiers, migrantes, travailleuses du sexe et criminalisées
  Buttrerfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network)

• Le souci de soi : un outil fondamental pour la durabilité des mouvements féministes et LGBTQI
  United and Strong Inc., S.H.E Barbados, Lez Connect

• Donner la place aux voix, aux réalités et au pouvoir collectif des jeunes féministes en faveur de la justice climatique
  Young Feminist organization Gasy Youth Up, Young African Feminist Dialogues

• Femmes solidaires et en action : incarner nos réalités (Asie et Afrique)
  Women Performing the World (Asia/Africa)

• Défier le patriarcat : les travailleurs et travailleuses dans le secteur des loisirs et du divertissement
  Women Forum for Women in Nepal (WOFOWON)

• Non-citoyennes: la question de la citoyenneté des femmes dans le contexte des communautés migrantes et vulnérables en Asie du Sud
  NEthing

• Visualiser comment faire entendre nos voix dans le contexte de la crises climatique et migratoire
  Women's Refugee Commission, The Feminist Humanitarian Network, ActionAid

• Dans le même bateau : les fonds pour les femmes et les mouvements de femmes cocréent des réalités féministes
  Mama Cash, Global Fund for Women, Urgent Action Fund - Africa

• Co-création de magie avec des mouvements de jeunes féministes : pratiques participatives qui inspirent la joie
  Feminist organizing, FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund (Community), Teia

• Droit de protection de femmes vivant des réalités difficiles : le cas de 3 organisations de femmes de communautés marginales
  NGO Asteria, Ermolaeva Irena and Bayazitova Renata. NGO Ganesha Musagalieva Tatiana. NGO Ravniy Ravnomu Kucheryavyh Tanya

• Feminnale (biennale féministe) - Les traditions contre l'art et les formes d'expression
  Bishkek Feminist Initiatives

• Résistance grâce au savoir, aux arts et à l'activisme : création d'une bilbliothèque féministe en Arménie
  FemHouse, Armenia

• À la conquête du système onusien grâce à des stratégies féministes (il ne faut pas être avocat.e pour s'amuser)
  Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita", IWRAW Asia Pacific, ILGA World

• Les données, à quoi ça sert ? Vers des données élaborées d'une perspective féministes pour répondre à nos besoins !
  International Women's Development Agency, Women's Rights Action Movement, Fiji Women's Rights Movement

• Criminalisation de la voix, du leadership et de l'influence des femmes sur les lois, les politiques et les pratiques au Kenya
  Keeping Alive Societies Hope-KASH, Katindi Lawyers and Advocates, Vocal Kenya

• De la Colombie vers le monde, la force de changement des femmes africaines
  Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia -PCN, Solidarité Féminine por la Paix el le Develppment Integral -SOFEPADI,

• Salon d"écoute AfroQueer et stand d'enregistrement d'histoires
  AQ Studios, None on Record, AfroQueer Podcast

• Revendiquer l'intégrité corporelle
  GBV Prevention Network : Coordinated by Raising Voices

• Apprenons de la diversité
  Circulo de Mujeres con Discapacidad -CIMUDIS, Alianza Discapacidad por nuestros Derechos -ADIDE, Fundación Dominicana de Ciegos -FUDCI, Filial Puerto Rico de Mujeres con Discapacidad

• Le football comme outil féministe
  Fundación GOLEES (Género, Orgullo, Libertad y Empoderamiento de Ellas en la Sociedad)

• Constellations migrantes
  LasVanders

• Dialogues écoféministes pour la défense
  CIEDUR (Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo), Equit, Foro permanente de Manaos y Amazonia

• Le mouvement «La Frida Bikes»
  La Frida Bike

• Sorcellerie, chamanisme et autres savoirs insurrectionnelles contre le patriarcat.
  Colectiva Feminista MAPAS-Mujeres Andando Proceso por Autonomías Sororales

• Expériences, apprentissages et défis relatifs à la gestion de la sécurité holistique des organisations horizontales féministes et de la dissidence liée à l'identité de genre en période de crise sociale et politique. L'expérience du soulèvement populaire du 18 octobre au Chili.
  Fudación Comunidades en Interfaz

• La nourriture que nous connaissons tou·te·s
  Las Nietas de Nonó, Parceleras Afrocaribeñas por la Transformación barrial (PATBA)

• Pratiques de résistance des femmes autochtones du Pérou et du Guatemala face au changement climatique
  Thousand Currents, Red de Mujeres Productoras de la Agricultura Familiar, Asociación de Mujeres Ixpiyakok (ADEMI, Ixpiyakok Women's Association)

• Construire des villes féministes
  CISCSA, Articulacion Feminista Marcosur

• Mets-toi à ma place
  Alianza Discapacidad por nuestros Derechos - ADIDE, Circulo de Mujeres con Discapacidad -CIMUDIS

• Déblayer la voie pour que les femmes puissent vivre pleinement, guérir les traumatismes collectifs et historiques
  Grupo de Mujeres Mayas Kaqla

• Des femmes autochtones zapotèques défiées par la nature

• Foyers de soins et de réparation pour les défenseuses des droits humains dans le cadre de l'approche d'une protection intégrale féministe : une réalité féministe
  Iniciativa Mesoamericana De Defensoras de Derechos Humanos, Consorcio Oaxaca para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad A.C, Red Nacional De Defensoras De Derechos Humanos en Honduras, Coletivo Feminista de Autocuidado

• Guérir ta voix de licorne : tisser des technologies ancestrales et digitales pour aiguiser la langue

• Pistes féministes vers un protocole de maternité assistée pour les femmes en situation de handicap
  Circulo emancipador de mujeres y niñas con discapacidad de Chile, CIMUNIDIS, WEI

• Ecole pour enfants trans féministes
  Fundación Selena

• REDTRASEX: Expérience d'organisation et de lutte pour les droits des travailleuses du sexe d'Amérique Latine et des Caraïbes
  RedTraSex Red de mujeres trabajadoras sexuales LAC

• Violence de genre dans le monde du commerce du sexe
  Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer, "Elisa Martínez", A.C., Red Mexicana de Organizaciones Contra la Criminalización del VIH. Red Mexicana de Trabajo Sexual

• La migration nous oblige à tracer notre chemin au fur et à mesure que nous marchons
  Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila. ATRAHDOM

• Nouveaux récits pour les femmes noires : corps, guérison et plaisir.

• Tisser des souvenirs et des réseaux - Les féministes noires renforcent les féminismes noirs en Amérique latine et aux Caraïbes
  Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora, Articulação de Organizações de Mulheres Negras Brasileiras (AMNB), Voces Caribeñas

 جديد

عبر الإنترنت وهجين

كمشارك/ة عبر الإنترنت، يمكنك توجيه النشاطات والتواصل والتحدث مع الآخرين/ الأخريات وتجربة الإبداع والفن والاحتفال بمنتدى جمعية حقوق المرأة في التنمية بشكل مباشر. سيستمتع المشاركون/ات المتصلون/ات عبر الإنترنت ببرنامج غني ومتنوع، بدءًا من ورشات العمل والنقاشات وحتى نشاطات الاستشفاء والعروض الموسيقية. ستركز بعض الأنشطة على التواصل بين المشاركين/ات عبر الإنترنت، وسيكون البعض الآخر هجينًا بالفعل، يركز على الاتصال والتفاعل بين المشاركين/ات عبر الإنترنت وأولئك الموجودين/ات في بانكوك.

Un indice visuel est toujours utile

« La sexualité est fluide, et là mon vagin aussi. »
#FeministFestival #SextLikeAFeminist

by Marta Plaza Fernández, Madrid, Spain (@gacela1980)

The feminist reality that I want to share is about weaving networks in which we uphold one another. Networks which come together in different ways, which emerge from our shared vulnerability, and which make all of us stronger.

The streets of Chamberí, my neighbourhood in Madrid, became much more of a home following the gatherings in the plazas organized by the citizens movement that originated in a rally on May 15, 2011. I think about how, during those years, we met each other and were able to associate faces, voices, smiles with so many neighbours who previously were only silhouettes without names or pasts, and who we passed by without seeing or hearing each other. I think about how we’ve become involved and dedicated; how we’ve woven a palpable, tangible community; how we’ve been advancing hand in hand towards building a new more inhabitable world, which we want and that we urgently need to create.

A group of activists and utopian neighbours, (in the best sense of the word utopian) – that moves us to action to do something real – that group for me was practically the first that reacted differently when I shared a part of my history and identity with them. With these women I shared my psychiatric diagnosis, my multiple hospital stays, the number of daily pills that accompanied me, my disability certificate, my difficulty in preserving that vital link that periodically disintegrates in my hands.

These neighbours, friends, comrades, links, loves –did not only not distance themselves from me once they got to know someone who many others had labelled as problematic, manipulator, egotistical – but became my principal network of affection and mutual support. They decided to navigate with me when the sea became agitated with storms. These people have given a different meaning to my days.

Building our feminist reality also encompasses carrying the “I believe you, sister” that we use when a friend has suffered a macho attack to the violence experienced by psychiatrized women at the hands of the very psychiatric system and institutions that are supposed to help us (and instead are often the new abuser who traumatizes and hurts us all over again). And this reality must include respect for our decisions, without taking away our agency and capacity to direct our own steps to one space or another; to listen to our narratives, desires, needs…without trying to impose others that are alien to us. It means not delegitimizing our discourse, not alluding to the label of our diagnosis, nor our madness.

With these transformation, each stay in the psychiatric institute did erase the ties that we had been able to build, but instead this network stayed by my side, its members took turns so that each day there would be no lull in calls, in visits, so that I could feel them as close as one can feel another person separated by locked doors (but unfortunately open for abuse) within the confines of the psychiatric ward. Through the warmth and kindness from my people I could rebuild that vital link that had once again been broken.

The even bigger leap happened when I was already aware of the numerous violent acts and abuse (where among other assaults, I spent days strapped to a bed, relieving myself where I lay),  I decided that I would not go back to being interned.

This network of care, these women neighbours-friends-loves-comrades, they respected my refusal to return to the hospital and supported me through each crisis I’ve been through since then. Without being interned, without violence.

They took turns accompanying me when my link to life was so broken that I felt such a huge risk which I couldn’t handle on my own. They organized WhatsApp group check-ins. They coordinated care and responsibilities so that no one would feel overwhelmed - because when an individual feels overloaded, they make decisions based on fear and the need for control instead of prioritizing accompaniment and care.

That first crisis that we were able to surmount together in this way – without being admitted to the psychiatric institute, represented a dramatic change in my life. There were months when my life was at risk, of intense suffering and of so much fear for my people and for me. But we overcame it together, and all that I thought was that if we could get over that crisis, then we could also find ways to face all the difficulties and crises that may come.

These feminist realities that we’re building day by day keep expanding, growing and taking different forms. We’re learning together, we’re growing together. Distancing ourselves from a welfare mentality, one of the first lessons was that, in reality, there wouldn’t be anyone receiving care (because of a psychiatric label) or anyone helping, from the other side of the sanity/insanity line. We learnt – we’re learning – to move to a different key – that of mutual support, of providing care and being cared for, of caring for each other.

We’ve also explored the limits of self care and the strength of collectivizing care and redistributing it so it’s not a burden that paralyzes us; we learnt – and we keep learning today – about joy and enjoying care that is chosen.

Another recent learning is about how difficult it was to start integrating money as another component of mutual support that we all give and receive. It was hard for us to realize how internalized capitalism kept on reverberating in our relationship with money, and that even though no one expected any payment for the containers of lentils we cooked amongst us when eating and cooking were difficult tasks, our expectation regarding money was different. Phrases like “how much you have is how much you’re worth” become stuck inside of us without critically analyzing them. It’s easy to keep thinking that the money each one has is related to the effort made to earn it, and not due to other social conditioning distant from personal merit. In fact, within this well-established mutual support network – redistributing money based on needs without questioning – was still a remote reality for our day to day. That’s why this is something that we’ve recently started to work on and think through as a group.

We want to get closer to that anti-capitalist world where mutual support is the way that we have chosen to be in the world; and that entails deconstructing our personal and collective relationship with money and internalized capitalism.

In these feminist realities we also know that learning never stops, and that the road continues to be shaped as we travel upon it. There is still much to do to keep caring for ourselves, to keep expanding perspectives and to make ourselves more aware of the persistent power imbalances, of privileges that we hold and continue to exercise, without realizing the violence that they reproduce.

Though we’ve already travelled so far, we still have a long way to go to get closer to that new world that we hold in our hearts (and for some within our crazy little heads too). Racism, classism, adult-centrism, fat-phobia, and machismo that persists among our partners.

Among the pending lessons, we’ve needed for a long time already to build a liveable future in which feminism is really intersectional and in which we all have space, in which the realities and oppressions of other sisters are just as important as our own. We also need to move forward horizontally when we build collectively – getting rid of egos, of protagonisms, to live together and deal with the need for recognition in a different way. And to also keep making strides grounded in the awareness that the personal is always, always political.

How we relate to and link with each other cannot be relegated to the private domain, nor kept silent: other loves are possible, other connections and other families are necessary, and we are also inventing them as we go.

This new world which we want to create, and that we need to believe in – is this kind world – in which we can love, and feel pride in ourselves – and in which all worlds will fit. We’ll keep at it.

“Healing Together”

by Upasana Agarwal, Kolkata, India (@upasana_a)

Looking at activists and feminists as healers and nourishers of the world, in the midst of battling growing right wing presence, white supremacy and climate change. This piece highlights how our feminist reality puts kindness, solidarity, and empathy into action by showing up and challenging the status quo to liberate us all. 

Communicating Desire

and Other Embodied Political Praxes

Communicating Desire

Host: We tend to think about communicating desire as something that is limited to the private intimacy of the bedroom and our personal relationships. But can we also think of this kind of communication as a structure, a praxis that informs our work, and how we are, how we do in the world?

Lindiwe
I believe that unfortunately in the past, expressing your sexuality has been limited. You were allowed to express it within the confines of your marriage, which was permitted, there have always been taboo and stigmas attached to expressing it any other way. When it comes to communicating, obviously the fact that certain stigmas are attached to expressing your sexuality or expressing your desire makes it a lot harder to communicate that in the bedroom or intimately with your partner. From my personal experience, I do believe that obviously if I feel more comfortable expressing myself outside of the bedroom on other matters or other topics, it’s easier for me to build that trust, because you understand conflict resolution with that particular person, you understand exactly how to make your communication special towards that particular person. It’s not easy. It’s something that is consistently done throughout whatever your engagement is, whether it’s your relationship or whether it’s casual and just in the moment. But I believe that confidence outside can definitely translate to how you communicate your desire.

Manal
Since childhood, a woman is raised with that, “you’re not allowed to talk about your body, you’re not allowed to talk about your desire,” which puts a heavy responsibility on women, especially girls in their teens when they need to express themselves and talk about these issues. So for me I think this is a big problem. You know, I have been married for more than 25 years, but still, until now, I cannot talk about my desires. I cannot say what I want or what I prefer, because it’s like I’m not allowed to go beyond this line. It’s like haram, despite it being my right. This is the case for all my friends, they just can’t express themselves in the right way.

Louise
Personally, I find that expressing our desires, my desires, however that expression comes in hand, has to do with the other, and the gaze that the other would have on me. So this is also something that we can link to cinema. And the gaze I would have on myself as well: what I think I am as an individual, but also what society expects of me and my sexuality. In the past, I somehow did the analogy between what happens in the bedroom and what happens in the workplace, because there is sometimes this dynamic of power, whether I want it or not. And oftentimes, verbal communication is harder than we think. But when it comes to representation in film, that’s a totally different game. We are very far away from what I guess all of us here would like to see on screen when it comes to just communicating sexual desires inside or outside the bedroom. 

Online and Embodied

Host: We can think about the digital world as embodied: while it might be virtual, it is not less real. And this was made clear in the context of AWID’s feminist realities festival, which took place entirely online. What does it mean then to talk about sexuality, collectively, politically, in online spaces? Do we navigate virtual spaces with our bodies and affects, and in this case, what are the different considerations? What does it do to communication and representation?

Lindiwe
Social media makes you feel community-based. When you express what it is that you want or like, there is someone who’s either going to agree or disagree, but those who do agree make you feel that you belong to a community. So it’s easier to throw it out into the universe, or for others to see, and potentially not get as much judgment. And I say this very loosely because sometimes, depending on what it is that you’re expressing, it either will get you vilified or celebrated. But when it comes to the bedroom, there is an intimacy and almost a vulnerability that is exposing you and different parts of you that is not as easy to give your opinion on. When it comes to expressing your desire, speaking it and saying it and maybe putting a Tweet or a social media post, or even liking and reading other communities that are same-minded is a lot easier than telling your partner, “this is how I want to be pleasured” or “this is how what I want you to do next,” because of the fear of rejection. But not only that, just the vulnerability aspect – allowing yourself to be bare enough to let the other person see into what you are thinking, feeling, and wanting – I think this is where the difference would come in for me personally. I feel it is a lot more community-based on social media, and it’s easier to engage in discourse. Whereas in the bedroom, you don’t want to necessarily kill the moment. But I think that also kind of helps you understand going forward, depending on the relationship with the person, how you would engage thereafter. So I always know that if I try to communicate something and I fail to do so in the moment, I can always try to bring it up outside of that moment and see what the reaction would be so I know how to approach it going forward.

Louise
You know the question in films is, I don’t know if the male gaze is done intentionally or not. Like we don’t really know that. What we know is that the reason why sexuality in general has been so heternormative and focused on penetration and not giving any space for women to actually ask for anything in films, is because most of the people who have been working in this industry and making decisions in terms of, you know, storytelling and editing have been white men. So rape revenge is this very weird film genre that was birthed in the 70s, and half of the story would be that a woman is being raped by one or multiple people, and in the other half, she would get her revenge. So usually she would murder and kill the people who have raped her, and sometimes other people next to them. At the beginning of the birth of this genre and for 30 years at least, those films were written, produced, and directed by men. This is why we also want so much representation. A lot of feminists and pioneers in queer filmmaking also used the act of filming in order to do that and to reclaim their own sexuality. I’m thinking about Barbara Hammer, who’s a feminist and queer pioneer in experimental cinema in the U.S. where she decided to shoot women having sex on 16mm, and by doing so reclaimed a space within the narrative that was exposed in film at that time. And there is also then the question of invisibilization: we know now, because of the internet and sharing knowledge, that women and queer filmmakers have been trying and making films since the beginning of cinema. We only realize it now that we have access to databases and the work of activists and curators and filmmakers.

Resisting Colonization

Host: And this opens up the conversation on the importance of keeping our feminist histories alive. The online worlds have also played a crucial role in documenting protests and resistance. From Sudan to Palestine to Colombia, feminists have taken our screens by storm, challenging the realities of occupation, capitalism, and oppression. So could we speak of communicating desire – the desire for something else – as decolonization?

Manal
Maybe because my village is just 600 residents and the whole village is one family – Tamimi – there are no barriers between men and women. We do everything together. So when we began our non-violent resistance or when we joined the non-violent resistance in Palestine, there was no discussion whether women should participate or not. We took a very important role within the movement here in the village. But when other villages and other places began to join our weekly protests, some men thought that if these women participate or join the protests, they will fight with soldiers so it will be like they’re easy women. There were some men who were not from the village who tried to sexually harass the women. But a strong woman who is able to stand in front of a soldier can also stand against sexual harassment. Sometimes, when other women from other places join our protest, they are shy at first; they don’t want to come closer because there are many men. If you want to join the protest, if you want to be part of the non-violent movement, you have to remove all these restrictions and all these thoughts from your mind. You have to focus on just fighting for your rights. Unfortunately, the Israeli occupation realizes this issue. For example, the first time I was arrested, I wear the hijab so they tried to take it off; they tried to take off my clothes, in front of everybody. There were like 300-400 people and they tried to do it. When they took me to the interrogation, the interrogator said: “we did this because we want to punish other women through you. We know your culture.” So I told him: “I don’t care, I did something that I believe in. Even if you take all my clothes off, everybody knows that Manal is resisting.”

Lindiwe
I think even from a cultural perspective, which is very ironic, if you look at culture in Africa, prior to getting colonized, showing skin wasn’t a problem. Wearing animal skin and/or hides to protect you, that wasn’t an issue and people weren’t as sexualized unless it was within context. But we conditioned ourselves to say, “you should be covered up” and the moment you are not covered up you are exposed, and therefore it will be sexualized. Nudity gets sexualized as opposed to you just being naked; they don’t want a little girl to be seen naked. What kind of society have we conditioned ourselves to be if you’re going to be sexualizing someone who is naked outside of the context of a sexual engagement? But environment definitely plays a big role because your parents and your grannies and your aunts say “no, don’t dress inappropriately,” or “no, that’s too short.” So you hear that at home first, and then the moment you get exposed outside, depending on the environment, whether it’s a Eurocentric or more westernized environment to what you are used to, then you are kind of free to do so. And even then, as much as you are free, there’s still a lot that comes with it in terms of catcalling and people still sexualizing your body. You could be wearing a short skirt, and someone feels they have the right to touch you without your permission. There is so much that is associated with regulating and controlling women’s bodies, and that narrative starts at home. And then you go out into your community and society and the narrative gets perpetuated, and you realize that you get sexualized by society at large too, especially as a person of color.

Resistance as Pleasure

Host: And finally, in what ways can our resistance be more than what we are allowed? Is there a place for pleasure and joy, for us and our communities?

Louise
Finding pleasure as resistance and resistance in pleasure, first for me there is this idea of the guerrilla filmmaking or the action of filming when you’re not supposed to or when someone told you not to, which is the case for a lot of women and queer filmmakers in the world right now. For example, in Lebanon, which is a cinema scene that I know very well, most of the lesbian stories that I’ve seen were shot by students in very short formats with “no production value” as the west would say – meaning with no money, because of the censorship that happens on an institutional level, but also within the family and within the private sphere. I would think that filming whatever, but also filming pleasure and pleasure within lesbian storytelling is an act of resistance in itself. A lot of times, just taking a camera and getting someone to edit and someone to act is extremely hard and requires a lot of political stance.

Lindiwe
I have a rape support group. I’m trying to assist women to reintegrate themselves from a sexual perspective: wanting to be intimate again, wanting to not let their past traumas influence so much how they move forward. It’s not an easy thing, but it’s individual. So I always start with understanding your body. I feel the more you understand and love and are proud of it, the more you are able to allow someone else into that space. I call it sensuality training, where I get them to start seeing themselves as not sexual objects, but as objects of pleasure and desire that can be interchangeable. So you’re worthy of receiving as well as giving. But that’s not only from a psychological point of view; it is physical. When you get out of the shower, you get out of the bath, and you’re putting lotion on your body, look at every part of your body, feel every part of your body, know when there are changes, know your body so well that should you get a new pimple on your knee, you are so aware of it because just a few hours ago it wasn’t there. So things like that where I kind of get people to love themselves from within, so they feel they are worthy of being loved in a safe space, is how I gear them towards claiming their sexuality and their desire.

Manal
You know we began to see women coming from Nablus, from Jerusalem, from Ramallah, even from occupied 48, who have to drive for 3-4 hours just to come to join the protests. After that we tried to go to other places, talk with women, tell them that they don’t have to be shy, that they should just believe in themselves and that there is nothing wrong in what we are doing. You can protect yourself, so where is the wrong in participating or in joining? Once I asked some women, “why are you joining?” And they said, “if the Tamimi women can do it, we can do it also.” To be honest I was very happy to hear this because we were like a model for other women. If I have to stand for my rights, it should be all my rights, not just one or two. We can’t divide rights.