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Supporting feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements to thrive, to be a driving force in challenging systems of oppression, and to co-create feminist realities.

Building Feminist Economies

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Building Feminist Economies is about creating a world with clean air to breath and water to drink, with meaningful labour and care for ourselves and our communities, where we can all enjoy our economic, sexual and political autonomy.

In the world we live in today, the economy continues to rely on women’s unpaid and undervalued care work for the profit of others. The pursuit of “growth” only expands extractivism - a model of development based on massive extraction and exploitation of natural resources that keeps destroying people and planet while concentrating wealth in the hands of global elites. Meanwhile, access to healthcare, education, a decent wage and social security is becoming a privilege to few. This economic model sits upon white supremacy, colonialism and patriarchy.

Adopting solely a “women’s economic empowerment approach” is merely to integrate women deeper into this system. It may be a temporary means of survival. We need to plant the seeds to make another world possible while we tear down the walls of the existing one.

We believe in the ability of feminist movements to work for change with broad alliances across social movements. By amplifying feminist proposals and visions, we aim to build new paradigms of just economies.

Our approach must be interconnected and intersectional, because sexual and bodily autonomy will not be possible until each and every one of us enjoys economic rights and independence. We aim to work with those who resist and counter the global rise of the conservative right and religious fundamentalisms as no just economy is possible until we shake the foundations of the current system.

Our Actions

Our work challenges the system from within and exposes its fundamental injustices:

  • Advance feminist agendas: We counter corporate power and impunity for human rights abuses by working with allies to ensure that we put forward feminist, women’s rights and gender justice perspectives in policy spaces. For example, learn more about our work on the future international legally binding instrument on “transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights” at the United Nations Human Rights Council.

  • Mobilize solidarity actions: We work to strengthen the links between feminist and tax justice movements, including reclaiming the public resources lost through illicit financial flows (IFFs) to ensure social and gender justice.

  • Build knowledge: We provide women human rights defenders (WHRDs) with strategic information vital to challenge corporate power and extractivism. We will contribute to build the knowledge about local and global financing and investment mechanisms fuelling extractivism.

  • Create and amplify alternatives: We engage and mobilize our members and movements in visioning feminist economies and sharing feminist knowledges, practices and agendas for economic justice.

“The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing”.

Arundhati Roy, War Talk

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Реалии обеспечения ресурсами и состояние финансирования феминистских движений быстро меняются – является ли этот опрос единичным?

Нет, не является. Он основан на 20-летней истории AWID по мобилизации более объемного и качественного финансирования для социальных изменений под руководством феминисток(-ов) и является третьим этапом исследования «Где деньги для феминистских организаций?». Наша цель – проводить опрос «Где деньги?» каждые 3 года.

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Sexting Like a Feminist: Humor in the Digital Feminist Revolution

On September 2nd, 2021, the amazing feminist and social justice activists of AWID’s Crear | Résister | Transform festival came together not only to share resistance strategies, co-create, and transform the world, but also to talk dirty on Twitter.

The exercise was led by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, co-founder of the blog Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women and author of The Sex Lives of African Women, who paired up with the Pan-Africanist digital queer womanist platform AfroFemHub, to ask the question: How can we safely and consensually explore our pleasure, desires, and fantasies via text?

Basically: How would a feminist sext?

I believe this is a critically important question because it looks at the larger issue of how one navigates the online world with a feminist understanding. Under capitalism, discourse around bodies and sex can be dehumanizing and distorting, and navigating sexual pleasure in virtual spaces can feel performative. So seeking out avenues where we can explore how we share our desire in ways that are affirming and enthusiastic can push back against dominant models of presentation and consumption to reclaim these spaces as sites for authentic engagement, proving that all sexting should be just that: feminist.

Plus, allowing feminist discourse to embody its playful side in online discourse helps reframe a popular narrative that feminist engagement is joyless and dour. But as we know, having fun is part of our politics, and an inherent part of what it means to be feminist.

Using the hashtag #SextLikeAFeminist, scholars and activists from all over the world chimed in with their thirstiest feminist tweets, and here are my top ten.

As these tweets show, it turns out that sexting like a feminist is sexy, funny – and horny. Yet, it never loses sight of its commitment to equity and justice.

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إيستر لوبيز  راقصة وكاتبة تركز أبحاثها على الجسد والنوع والعرق والعلاقات الطبقية. هي مدرّبة بيلاتيس ومعلمة فنون. تخرجت إستر في دراسة المسرح المعاصر – العمليات الإبداعية (في FAINC) وفي الرقص والوعي بالجسم (في USCS). يشمل تخصصها الموسيقي الغناء الشعبي والإيقاع. تلقت تدريبًا في “نوفوس برينكانتس” مع فليرا فيرو وماتيوس برادو وأنطونيو مييرا في معهد Brincante في عامي 2015 و 2016.

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Where will the money be for feminist organizing?

Activists reflection & solidarity circle

✉️ By registration only. Register here

📅 Friday, March 14, 2025
🕒 12.00-2.00pm EST
🏢 Blue Gallery, The Blue Building, 222 East 46th Street

🎙️Facilitated by: Gopika Bashi, AWID Director of Programs

Organizer: Count Me In! Consortium

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تَجسُّد اللذة المدرِكة للتروما

الصدمة ليست الحدث؛ إنها أجسادنا التي تستجيب للأحداث التي تشعرنا بخطرها علينا. وفي أغلب الأحوال تبقى عالقة في أجسادنا، إلى أن نتعامل معها. لا يوجد حديث عن أجسادنا خارج هذه الاستجابة – لأنها كذلك.

 

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حلقة نقاش | التمتّع عبر الحدود 
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Young Feminist Activism

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Organizing creatively, facing an increasing threat

Young feminist activists play a critical role in women’s rights organizations and movements worldwide by bringing up new issues that feminists face today. Their strength, creativity and adaptability are vital to the sustainability of feminist organizing.

At the same time, they face specific impediments to their activism such as limited access to funding and support, lack of capacity-building opportunities, and a significant increase of attacks on young women human rights defenders. This creates a lack of visibility that makes more difficult their inclusion and effective participation within women’s rights movements.

A multigenerational approach

AWID’s young feminist activism program was created to make sure the voices of young women are heard and reflected in feminist discourse. We want to ensure that young feminists have better access to funding, capacity-building opportunities and international processes. In addition to supporting young feminists directly, we are also working with women’s rights activists of all ages on practical models and strategies for effective multigenerational organizing.

Our Actions

We want young feminist activists to play a role in decision-making affecting their rights by:

  • Fostering community and sharing information through the Young Feminist Wire. Recognizing the importance of online media for the work of young feminists, our team launched the Young Feminist Wire in May 2010 to share information, build capacity through online webinars and e-discussions, and encourage community building.

  • Researching and building knowledge on young feminist activism, to increase the visibility and impact of young feminist activism within and across women’s rights movements and other key actors such as donors.

  • Promoting more effective multigenerational organizing, exploring better ways to work together.

  • Supporting young feminists to engage in global development processes such as those within the United Nations

  • Collaboration across all of AWID’s priority areas, including the Forum, to ensure young feminists’ key contributions, perspectives, needs and activism are reflected in debates, policies and programs affecting them.

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L’activisme pour les droits et la protection des travailleuses-eurs du sexe en Hongrie

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L’activisme pour les droits et la protection des travailleuses-eurs du sexe en Hongrie

En septembre 2015, l'Association hongroise des travailleuses-eurs du sexe (SZEXE) a célébré 15 ans de travail au service de la lutte pour les droits des travailleuses-eurs du sexe, pour leur protection et contre leur stigmatisation. 

SZEXE a été créée par des travailleuses du sexe, pour la plupart d’origine rom et travaillant dans la rue, qui se sont réunies avec leurs allié-e-s pour protester contre l'introduction d'une loi réglementant le travail du sexe. Cette action est souvent décrite comme marquant le début de l'activisme sur le travail du sexe en Hongrie.

« Zones de tolérance »

La loi contre laquelle SZEXE a protesté a été « rédigée afin de pousser les travailleuses-eurs du sexe, principalement d'origine rom, à quitter Józsefváros, le 8ème arrondissement de Budapest, de sorte que la zone puisse être réhabilitée et que les bâtiments publics puissent être privatisées plus facilement ». Selon cette loi, les municipalités qui comptent une population de plus de 50.000 personnes ou des quartiers où le travail du sexe est considéré comme envahissant devaient délimiter des soi-disant «zones de tolérance». Il a été déclaré illégal de proposer des services sexuels en dehors de ces zones alors que les autorités hongroises étaient réticentes à les identifier. Cela a poussé un nombre important de travailleuses-eurs du sexe vers l'activité illégale, un grand nombre d’entre elles ayant été condamnées à une amende ou placées en détention.

Pour aggraver encore la situation, les travailleuses-eurs du sexe entretiennent des rapports hostiles avec la police :

«Les travailleuses-eurs du sexe craignent la police, plutôt que de pouvoir compter sur elle pour les défendre contre des actes de violence ou d'autres crimes. » – SZEXE

Mettre la maltraitance au défi

L'une des priorités de SZEXE est de fournir une aide juridique aux travailleuses-eurs du sexe : Depuis sa création, l'organisation a initié de nombreuses actions en justice devant les tribunaux. En conséquence, certains districts de Budapest se sont vus obligés « d’identifier des zones de quasi-tolérance ». En dépit de ces décisions, SZEXE a été témoin à de nombreuses reprises de mauvais traitements à l’égard des travailleuses-eurs du sexe par la police et a constitué des dossiers d’information à leur sujet.

« La police a profité de l'absence de certitudes en matière juridique concernant ces zones de tolérance et les travailleuses-eurs du sexe ont été ciblées injustement afin de permettre à la police d’atteindre ses quotas d’amendes ». - SZEXE

SZEXE a contesté avec succès des centaines « d’amendes et de détentions arbitraires pratiquées par la police. »

Depuis que la Hongrie a rejoint l'UE en 2004, l'association a également mis en œuvre des projets pilotes innovants pour « favoriser l'auto-organisation de la communauté, pour autonomiser les travailleuses-eurs du sexe en leur fournissant des services juridiques et des services associés au VIH et en s’exprimant ouvertement contre la marginalisation et la pauvreté. Ces projets ont bénéficié de subventions du Fonds social européen ».

SZEXE soutient également les travailleuses-eurs du sexe en proposant de la formation par des pairs, des conseils en matière de migration, des services de santé communautaires, le développement des compétences entrepreneuriales et renforcé son travail de plaidoyer au niveau national et international. À la suite de ces efforts de lobbying et à la production d'un rapport alternatif, le Comité pour l'élimination de la discrimination à l'égard des femmes (CEDAW) a appelé le gouvernement hongrois à « adopter des mesures visant à prévenir la discrimination contre les travailleuses-eurs du sexe et de veiller à ce que la législation sur leurs droits à des conditions de travail sûres soit garantie aux niveaux local et national ".

Une société civile hongroise sur le déclin 

En dépit des nombreuses batailles et victoires remportées à ce jour, "la situation des travailleuses-eurs du sexe et leur mobilisation a décliné au cours des dernières années en Hongrie", selon SZEXE. Etant donné les mesures de répression contre la société civile et contre certaines ONGs par l'actuel gouvernement d'extrême-droite, SZEXE se retrouve parmi les organisations qui ont perdu « toutes ses principales sources de financement national dans un contexte de rétrécissement de l’espace d’expression de la société civile ». Les ONG pro-gouvernementales, quant à elles, bénéficient d’une ligne budgétaire destinée à soutenir les « valeurs familiales traditionnelles et (le renforcement de)  l'identité nationale ». 

Une autre facette de cette tendance inquiétante est une loi sur les délits de 2012, qui a un effet dévastateur sur les groupes marginalisés, y compris la population rom, les personnes sans-abri, les toxicomanes et les travailleuses-eurs du sexe. Cette loi a favorisé la discrimination et un contrôle disproportionné des travailleuses-eurs du sexe qui reçoivent « des amendes pour non-respect de réglementations vagues ou arbitraires en matière de travail du sexe ». SZEXE déclare qu’en 2012 seulement, plus de 14.000 cas de délit ont été enregistrés contre les travailleuses-eurs du sexe. Cette situation est aggravée par le fait qu’en l'absence d'engagement du gouvernement pour répondre à leur droit à la santé, les travailleuses-eurs du sexe sont encore plus vulnérables qu’avant. 

Mouvement(s) inclusifs

être créés et soutenus pour continuer à contester les discriminations, les stigmatisations et les violations des droits humains (pas seulement en Hongrie, mais à l'échelle mondiale). SZEXE a rejoint l’AWID comme membre suite à sa participation au Forum international de l’AWID en 2012.

"Ce rassemblement a vraiment été une source d'inspiration pour les collègues de SZEXE, c’était la première fois qu’elles ont eu l’occasion d’entrer en contact avec le mouvement féministe international et d’en apprendre plus sur les luttes des femmes, parfois très similaires, dans le monde" - SZEXE

La participation de SZEXE au Forum a renforcé sa prise de conscience du potentiel de mobilisation collective qui existe au sein du (des) mouvement(s) pour les droits des femmes. L'organisation, « inspirée par la diversité des voix et des causes du mouvement, s’exprime ouvertement contre le sexisme, la whorephobia, l'homophobie et la transphobie, le racisme et les préjugés sociaux que l’on retrouve dans trop de sociétés. »

« SZEXE vise à contribuer à un mouvement féministe qui soit inclusif des besoins et des voix des femmes qui sont souvent laissées pour compte par les mouvements issus de la société civile et par les  politiques, comme c’est le cas par exemple des femmes trans*, des travailleuses du sexe et des migrantes.» - SZEXE

Visionnez le film "Sex Workers Against the Tide" (travailleuses-eurs du sexe à contre-courant),  en anglais, avec sous-titres hongrois.

 

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The Association of Hungarian Sex Workers (SZEXE)

Sex Work Activism in Hungary

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Sex Work Activism in Hungary

In September 2015, the Association of Hungarian Sex Workers (SZEXE) celebrated 15 years of work in the struggle for sex worker rights, the protection of sex workers, and the dismantlement of stigma.

SZEXE was established by predominantly street-based Roma sex workers and their allies who joined together to protest the introduction of a law regulating sex work. This is often described as the beginning of sex work activism in Hungary.

‘Tolerance Zones’

The law SZEXE protested was “drafted in order to push sex workers, mainly of Roma origin, out of the Józsefváros, Budapest’s 8th district, so that it could undergo rehabilitation and properties could be privatised more easily.” According to this law, municipalities counting a population of more than 50,000 or areas where sex work is considered to be pervasive had to identify the so-called ‘tolerance zones’. It was declared illegal to engage in sex work outside of these specified zones, however Hungarian authorities were reluctant to identify these zones. This pushed a significant number of sex workers towards illegal activity with a large proportion of them being fined or detained.

To further aggravate the difficult position of sex workers, there was an antagonistic relationship with the police: 

“Sex workers fear the police rather than being able to depend on them for protection from violence or other crimes.” – SZEXE

Challenging Mistreatment

One of SZEXE’ priorities is to provide legal aid to sex workers, and the organisation has since its existence initiated numerous legal actions resulting in court orders for some districts of Budapest to “identify quasi-tolerance zones”. In spite of these orders, SZEXE has repeatedly witnessed and documented the mistreatment of sex workers by the police.

“Police took advantage of the lack of legal certainty surrounding these tolerance zones and unfairly targeted sex workers with fines in order to fill their quotas.” - SZEXE

In hundreds of cases, SZEXE has successfully challenged “the arbitrary fining and detention practices of the police.”

Since Hungary joined the EU in 2004, the association has also implemented innovative pioneering projects to “foster self-organisation of the community, to empower sex workers in providing HIV-related and paralegal services for their peers and become vocal advocates against marginalisation and poverty from grants of the European Social Fund”.

SZEXE also supports sex workers with peer education, migration counselling, community-based health services and entrepreneurial skills development, and has strengthened its national and international advocacy levels. As a result of its lobbying efforts and the production of a  shadow report, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called on the Hungarian government to “adopt measures aimed at preventing discrimination against sex workers and ensure that legislation on their rights to safe working conditions is guaranteed at national and local levels”.

Hungary’s shrinking civil society

Despite battles won and numerous achievements so far, “the situation of sex workers and their mobilisation has worsened in recent years in Hungary”, according to SZEXE. As a result of the present right-wing government’s crackdown on civil society and specific NGOs, SZEXE is among the organisations that has lost “all major sources of domestic funding in a shrinking civil society space” whereas pro-government NGOs have been financed through a funding scheme to support ‘traditional family values and national identity building/strengthening’.

Another part of this worrying trend is a 2012 misdemeanour law, which has a disproportionate effect on marginalised  groups including the Roma population, homeless persons, drug users and sex workers. The law has led to discrimination and disproportionate policing of sex workers who face “fines for non-compliance with vague sex work regulations or arbitrary fines…”. SZEXE states that in 2012 alone, over 14,000 misdemeanor cases were initiated against sex workers. This situation is compounded by the fact that sex workers have been left even more vulnerable by the lack of government’s commitment to address their right to health.  

Inclusive movement(s)

In order to continue challenging discrimination, stigma and violation of human rights (not just in Hungary but globally), inclusive, diverse and strong movements must be built and sustained. SZEXE joined AWID as a member as a result of its participation in the 2012 AWID International Forum.

“The gathering was truly inspirational for SZEXE’s colleagues as it was the first time when they connected with the international feminist movement and learned about the – sometimes very similar – struggles of women worldwide.” – SZEXE

SZEXE’s participation in the Forum reinforced its awareness of the powerful possibilities of collective mobilisation within the global women’s rights movement(s). The organisation, “inspired by diverse voices and causes in the movement, speaks out against sexism, whorephobia, homophobia and transphobia, racism and classism present in too many societies.”

“SZEXE aims to contribute to a feminist movement that is inclusive of those women's needs and voices, who are often left behind by civil society groups and policy-making, for instance trans women, sex workers or migrants.” - SZEXE

Watch “Sex Workers Against the Tide” (Hungarian with English subtitles)

 

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Southern, Central and Eastern Europe
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Sex work
Source
The Association of Hungarian Sex Workers (SZEXE)

Activismo por el trabajo sexual en Hungría

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Activismo por el trabajo sexual en Hungría

En septiembre de 2015, la Asociación de Trabajadorxs Sexuales de Hungría (SZEXE en su idioma original) celebró sus 15 años de trabajo en la lucha por afirmar los derechos y proteger a lxs trabajadorxs sexuales, así como por desmantelar el estigma contra ellxs

A SZEXE la crearon trabajadorxs sexuales sobre todo romaníes que trabajaban en la calle y sus aliadas, que se unieron para protestar por la sanción de una ley regulando el trabajo sexual. Se considera que el activismo por el trabajo sexual en Hungría comenzó en ese momento.

‘Zonas de tolerancia' 

La ley contra la que protestó SZEXE fue «redactada para sacar a lxs trabajadorxs sexuales, sobre todo las de origen romaní, del octavo distrito de Budapest, Józsefváros, para poder mejorarlo y que resultara más fácil privatizar las propiedades en esa zona». Según esa ley, los municipios con más de 50 000 habitantes o con zonas con gran presencia de prostitución  tenían que definir las llamadas 'zonas de tolerancia'. Ejercer el trabajo sexual fuera de esas zonas específicas pasó a ser ilegal, pero las autoridades se resistieron a definir dichas zonas. El resultado de esto fue que la actividad de un número significativo de trabajadorxs sexuales pasó a ser ilegal y muchas de ellxs fueron multadxs o arrestadxs. 

La relación hostil que mantenían con la policía agravó aún más su situación:

 «Lxs trabajadorxs sexuales no recurren a la policía en busca de protección frente a la violencia o a otros delitos sino que le temen» – SZEXE

Enfrentándose al maltrato

Una de las prioridades de SZEXE es brindar ayuda legal a las trabajadorxs sexuales y desde su comienzo la organización ha iniciado muchas acciones legales que llevaron a varios distritos de Budapest a verse obligados a 'identificar zonas de casi-tolerancia'. Pese a estos veredictos, SZEXE ha presenciado y documentado numerosos incidentes de maltrato policial contra trabajadorxs sexuales.

«La policía aprovechó la falta de certeza jurídica en torno a las zonas de tolerancia y en forma injusta se dedicó a multar a trabajadorxs sexuales para cumplir con sus cuotas».- SZEXE

En cientos de casos, SZEXE ha logrado cuestionar «las multas y detenciones arbitrarias realizadas por la policía». 

Desde que Hungría se sumó a la Unión Europea en 2004, la asociación también comenzó a implementar proyectos pioneros e innovadores para «estimular procesos organizativos autónomos en la comunidad, empoderar a las trabajadorxs sexuales para que brinden servicios a sus pares en áreas como el VIH o como auxiliares jurídicas y hacer que se conviertan en defensoras activas frente a la marginación y la pobreza, todo esto con el apoyo del Fondo Social Europeo». 

SZEXE también apoya a las trabajadorxs sexuales brindándoles educación entre pares, consejerías para migrantes, servicios de salud comunitaria y capacitación como emprendedorxs. También ha fortalecido su incidencia a nivel nacional e internacional. Como producto de sus esfuerzos de lobby y del informe sombra que redactaron, el Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW) consideró «preocupante la discriminación contra las trabajadorxs sexuales y la inexistencia en el Estado de medidas destinadas a garantizarles condiciones laborales seguras».

La reducción del espacio para la sociedad civil en Hungría

Pese a las batallas ganadas y los numerosos logros alcanzados hasta ahora, «la situación de lxs trabajadorxs sexuales y su grado de movilización han empeorado en los últimos años en Hungría», según SZEXE. Como producto de la represión contra la sociedad civil que está llevando adelante el gobierno actual (de derecha), SZEXE es una de las organizaciones que han perdido «todas sus principales fuentes domésticas de financiamiento en un contexto donde se está reduciendo el espacio para la sociedad civil», mientras que a las ONG pro-gobierno se las financia a través de programas para apoyar «los valores tradicionales de la familia y la construcción /fortalecimiento de la identidad nacional». 

Otro aspecto de esta tendencia preocupante es la ley de contravenciones promulgada en 2012, que tuvo un efecto desproporcionado sobre los grupos marginados como la población romaní, las personas sin hogar, usuarias/os de drogas y trabajadorxs sexuales. Esa ley generó discriminación y una vigilancia policial desproporcionada sobre lxs trabajadorxs sexuales que «reciben multas por violar regulaciones formuladas en forma vaga acerca del trabajo sexual o directamente en forma arbitraria...». SZEXE afirma que solo en 2012 se iniciaron más de 14 000 causas por contravenciones contra trabajadorxs sexuales. Esta situación se agrava por el hecho de que la falta de compromiso gubernamental con su derecho a la salud las ha colocado en una posición aún más vulnerable.   

Movimiento(s) incluyente(s)    

Para continuar desafiando la discriminación, el estigma y las violaciones a los derechos humanos (no solo en Hungría sino en todo el mundo) es necesario construir y sostener movimientos incluyentes, diversos y fuertes. SZEXE se afilió a AWID tras participar en el Foro Internacional de AWID 2012. 

«Esa reunión constituyó una gran inspiración para las compañeras de SZEXE, que por primera vez se vincularon con el movimiento feminista internacional y conocieron las luchas de las mujeres en distintas partes del mundo, a veces muy similares a las suyas». – SZEXE

La participación de SZEXE en el Foro hizo que sus integrantes reforzaran su percepción acerca de las posibilidades de movilización colectiva dentro del movimiento (o los movimientos) mundial(es) por los derechos de las mujeres. «Inspiradas por la diversidad de voces y de causas en el movimiento, nuestra organización alza su voz contra el sexismo, la putafobia, la homofobia y la transfobia, el racismo y el odio de clase presentes en demasiadas sociedades».

«SZEXE quiere contribuir a un movimiento feminista que incluya las necesidades y voces de aquellas mujeres a las que los grupos de la sociedad civil y quienes formulan políticas muchas veces dejan de lado, como las mujeres trans*, trabajadoras sexuales o migrantes.»- SZEXE

Mira el video «Sex Workers Against the Tide» (en húngaro, con subtítulos en inglés) 

 

Region
Europa del Sur, Central y del Este
Topics
Trabajo sexual
Source
The Association of Hungarian Sex Workers (SZEXE)

Statements

Berta Cáceres – Presente!

Source: AWID

Declaraciones

Berta Cáceres – ¡Presente!

Source: AWID

Déclarations

Berta Cáceres – Presente!

Source: AWID

Statements

IMD condemns the murder of Lenca feminist and women human rights defender Berta Cáceres and demands justice

Source: AWID and IM-Defensoras

Declaraciones

IM-Defensoras condena el asesinato de la feminista y defensora de derechos humanos lenca Berta Cáceres y exige justicia

Source: AWID e IM-Defensoras

Déclarations

IM-Defensoras condamne le meurtre de la féministe et défenseuse des droits humains lenca Berta Cáceres et demande justice

Source: AWID and IM-Defensoras

Statements

World Bank must push for greater transparency in PPP projects

Source: AWID and Eurodad

Análisis

Las mujeres negras recuperan la conversación sobre racismo en el mundo

Source: Foro de AWID

Analyses

Les femmes noires participent au débat sur le racisme dans le monde

Source: Forum de l'AWID

Analysis

Black women reclaim the conversation on racism worldwide

Source: AWID Forum

Analyses

Prendre la parole et se sentir en sécurité : Interview avec l’activiste pour la justice reproductive Renee Bracey Sherman

Source: AWID / YFA

Analysis

Speaking up and staying safer: an interview with young reproductive justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman

Source: AWID / YFA

Análisis

Alza la voz y ten cuidado: una entrevista con la joven activista por la justicia reproductiva Renée Bracey Sherman

Source: AWID / YFA

Declaraciones

Carta pública: Preocupación ante la grave situación de riesgo que enfrentan las personas defensoras de los derechos LGBTTTI en Honduras

Source: AWID e IM-Defensoras

Declaraciones

IM-Defensoras condena el feminicidio de la periodista Anabel Flores

Source: AWID e IM-Defensoras

#6 - Sexting like a feminist Tweets Snippet AR

أبقي رغبتك في خوض تجارب جديدة على جمر ملتهب!

Image of a tweet with the photo of American tv Host Steve Harvey. Text says - Me: Sir, have you tried pegging? Him: No, I haven't. Me: Think about it, cuz I would love to screw you the way the workplaces screw employees out of a livable wage.

أنا: هل سبق أن ثبتّ شيئاً بقضيب؟
هو: لا، لم أفعل
أنا: تمَعَّن بالعمليّة الآن، لأنني سأُريك شخصيًا، كيف تضع الرأسمالية قضيب
استغلالها في أجساد العمّال

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Snippet Festival Days 8-13_Fest (EN)

Day, jour, día 8 festival - Sept. 16, 2021
Panel
Body Pleasure for Fat Girls 

Amy Lin

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Workshop
Broadening Pleasure

Hedone

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Workshop
#EmptyChairs campaign

Caroline Tagny, Coalition of African Lesbians
Carrie Shelver, Sexual Rights Initiative
Emeline Dupuis, Sexual Rights Initiative
Pooja Badarinath, Sexual Rights Initiative
Pooja Patel, International Service for Human Rights
Antje Schupp

Workshop
Feminist Realities:
Breathing & Healing Houses for Defenders

Ana María Hernández Cárdenas, Consorcio Oaxaca
Nallely Tello Méndez, Red Nacional de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos en México
Jelena Dordevic Liana Funes, National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras
Rebeca Girón
Tania Lopes Muri, Movimento de Mulheres da Região dos Lagos
Rogéria Peixinho

Fem Movement
Members Dance Party Extravaganza

DJ Cozmic Cat
Day, jour, día 9 festival - Sept. 17, 2021
Storytelling
Unfettered Education:
Fatoumata's Story

Lina Baaziz

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Instagram Live:

Sex Education

Oloricoitus

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Workshop
Voices from the frontlines:
Bolstering collective power to end the incarceration of women worldwide
 

Claudia A. Cardona, Mujeres Libres Colombia
Phyllis Hardy, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Grace Natalia, Womxn’s Voice and Women and Harm Reduction International Network
Mónica Marginet Flinch, Metzineres
Kenya Cuevas, Casa de las Muñecas Tiresias A.C.
Dawn Harrington, Free Hearts

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Workshop
Movement as Healing,
Healing for Movements


Kimalee Phillip
Luz Stella Uspina Murillo, Fondo Acción Urgente para América Latina y el Caribe
Sara Munarriz-Awad, Fondo Acción Urgente para América Latina y el Caribe
Tai Pelli
Everdith (Evie) Landrau

Workshop
Emergent feminist leadership:
Lifting as we climb

Deborah A, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project (BLMP)
Anima Adjepong, Silent Majority
Maame Adwoa Marfo, FRIDA
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity
Day, jour, día 10 festival
Panel
Pleasure Across Borders

Lindiwe Rasekoala
Lizzie Kiama
Jovana Drodevic
Malaka Grant

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Panel
Abortion realities:
strategies to fight reproductive injustice

Lindiwe Rasekoala
Lizzie Kiama
Jovana Drodevic
Malaka Grant
Day, jour, día 11, festival
Workshop
Networking and Solidarity Building Among Young Feminist Organizers

Nino Ugrekhelidze, AWID
Anwulika Ngozi
Okonjo Pooja Singh

Panel
Surviving the war on drugs

Ganna Dovbakh, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
Priscila Gadelha, Rede Nacional de Feministas Antiproibicionistas (RENFA)
Veronica Russo, Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Personas que Usan Drogas (LANPUD)
Diana Edem, Heartland Alliance International
Judy Chang, International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
Louise Vincent, NC Urban Survivors Union
Aura Roig, Metzineres
Malicia, Live Artist

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Panel
Young Climate Feminists Building Radical Futures:
Video Launch and Conversation

Sanam Amin, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
Maggie Mapondera, Womin African Alliance
Maria Alejandra Escalente, FRIDA
Patricia Miranda Wattimena, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Mara Dolan, WEDO
Andrea Vega Troncoso, WEDO

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Workshop
Antal: Non-binary Universe

Malicia Sabina, Resistencia No Binarix
Andras Yareth Hernández, Resistencia No Binarix

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Day, jour, día 12, festival
Panel
Thank you, I can make my decision

Grace Chang, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights
Angel Hsu, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights
Joyann Peng, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights
Amy Wu, Taiwan Association for Disability Rights

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Panel
Feminist learnings on digital security in times of socio political and sanitary crisis

Paul Nail Ojeda
Paola Moss

Workshop
The current state of forests:
what’s the issue and why is it so important?

Camila Romero, VientoSur
Kanta Marathe, Navrachna Samaj Sevi Sansthan
Jeanette Sequeira, Global Forest Coalition

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Visit the AWID Members Lounge

Jessica Whitbread, AWID
Day, jour, día 13 festival
Workshop
Supporting the self-managed:
abortion doulas, acompanantes and radical networks of support

Aditi Pinto, Inroads
Daniela Tellez Del Valle, Di RAMONA
Sandra Cardona, Necesito Abortar México
Mickreen Adhiambo, Aunty Jane Hotline and MAMA Network
Zachi Brewster, Dopo Abortion Support
Ika Ayi, Samsara

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Workshop
Young Feminist Skill-Share:
How to Fund Your Idea

Nino Ugrekhelidze, AWID
Cassie Denbow
Nida Mushtaq

"Yo Imposible"
Watch Party & Discussion with Latin American Filmmakers from AWID's Feminist Film Club

Alejandra Laprea
Patricia Ortega
Alejandra Henriquez
Maria Torrellas
Carolina Reynoso
Camila Rodó
Micol Mtzener
Giovana Garcia

Snippet FEA Intro (EN)

Come meet the feminist economies we LOVE.

The economy is about how we organize our societies, our homes and workplaces. How do we live together? How do we produce food, organize childcare, provide for our health? The economy is also about how we access and manage resources, how we relate with other people, with ourselves and with nature.

Feminists have been building economic alternatives to exploitative capitalist systems for ages. These alternatives exist in the here and now, and they are the pillars of the just, fairer and more sustainable worlds we need and deserve.

We are excited to share with you a taste of feminist economic alternatives, featuring inspiring collectives from all around the world.