Takeaways from AWID’s Feminist School on Alternatives

by Marianne Asfaw

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.

Eat the 1%? The 99% Aren't Waiting for A Seat at The Table

by Saif Arbee

With little urgency from world leaders to improve the lives of the billions they’re paid to serve, the people are setting their own tables. We The 99% People’s Summit was evidence of a global movement to drive urgent and practical economic transformation.

A call from Myanmar – a recall of Tunisia

by Lola Sival

On refinding your optimism as a revolutionary feminist

My name is Lola.
I am a feminist. 
I have never been to Myanmar.

Se não lutarmos juntes, vamos chorar juntes.

by Lola Mahdhaoui Silva

Estamos cansadas ​​de sermos reduzidas a estudos de caso e campos de pesquisa para acadêmicos e estatísticas para financiadores, em vez de sermos vistas como seres humanos que somos.

If we do not fight together, we will mourn together.

by Lola Mahdhaoui Silva

We are tired of being reduced to case studies and research fields for academics and statistics for funders, instead of being seen as the human beings we are.

Resisting Homophobia in Ghana: a Queer & Feminist Strategy

On 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), join AWID’s global feminist community in a live conversation with queer feminist activists from Ghana.

How I became an advocate for sex workers’ rights

by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

A personal reflection by African feminist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah about her journey in becoming an advocate for sex workers' rights.

Ayanda Denge

“I am a wonder… Therefore I have been born by a mother! As I begin to stutter, my life has been like no other…” - Ayanda Denge  (read the whole poem below)

Sara Hegazy

Sara Hegazy, a bold Egyptian LGBTQI+ rights activist, lived in a society where the members of her community, their bodies and lives often face lethal prejudice. The roots of Sara’s resistance were in the deconstruction of a dominant, oppressive and patriarchal system, and its anti-rights actors.

Barbara Allimadi

Barbara Allimadi was a political and human rights activist from Uganda. In 2012, she co-organized a protest against a televised police assault of Ingrid Turinawe, an opposition politician who had her breast squeezed by a police officer.

During the protest, Barbara, along with other fellow activists stripped to their bras in front of the Central Police Station in Kampala. This came to be known as the infamous ‘bra protest’ in Uganda.