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Maybe tomorrow, we will find more words to explain to future generations the darkness of this moment, not just in Egypt, but across the region and the world. For now, we offer our love letter - to you Mada Masr and to independent journalists.

After two virtual learning sessions bringing together participants for the first time, we met in Nairobi, Kenya and over a five day period we learned, strategized, questioned and ultimately began the slow, intentional yet essential task of building community.

The escalation of misogyny and toxic masculinity as an indicator of strength and dominance has meant that dissent or demands for accountability and change have been met with detention and torture, increased use of anti-terror laws to curb human rights work, extrajudicial executions, transnational repression, lynching and surveillance.

Beyond Anti-Gender & Anti-Rights: Rebranding States and Engineering Citizens in the SWANA Region

Home is not a fixed place, nor a country. It is something carried, in the body, in memory, in the stubborn refusal to disappear. Home is a practice of becoming, shaped by what has been lost and what still remains.

In the past month, the Rohingya community in Malaysia faced an intensified wave of online violence and racist vitriol. Spurred by proposed restrictions on Rohingya public activities by Malaysian state governments and reforms to increase government surveillance over refugees, disinformation campaigns took over social media, demanding even stricter measures.

We often speak about “the economy” as though it were singular, but in reality there are many economies shaping how we live, work, care, and relate to each other and the planet. Feminist economic alternatives are especially powerful because they expose how capitalism is intertwined with patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and environmental destruction, while also creating practical ways of organizing life differently.

Feminists bring to this space the patience and persistence, strategy and solidarity, that committing to this process demands.