What Do Our Movements Need to Grow Stronger?
When organizations and movements are asked what they need to grow stronger, many are clear about their answer - better relationships and alliances across their sector and across movements.
Meet the artist Carol Rossetti
Read as Forum Program Coordinator, Amina Doherty sits down with Carol Rossetti, the artist who made the 12 activist portraits. Learn more about her and her work.
Our broken hearts: What will the healing unleash?
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.
Sliding into my DMs. On checking in and community care within Black feminism
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.
"The revolution will not be NGO-ised": four lessons from African feminist organising
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African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent.
What’s in store for a feminist internet
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 beautyful ones are here
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.
AWID Forum: Day 1 in illustrations
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.
Visioning Feminist Futures: Opening Plenary at the 13th AWID Forum
- “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.
Opening Plenary: Energy, song and feminist rituals to ward off evil
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.”