Nou Led Nou La: Why a Black Feminisms Forum?
Nou Led Nou La. I see you.
That is the basis for the historic gathering of over one hundred Black feminists from around the world happening in Bahia, Brazil in September 2016. I see you.
Creating homespace: An act of Black feminist self care and resistance
Whether they’re demanding that #FeesMustFall in South Africa, contesting white settler colonialism in Canada, or defending the right of Afrofeminists in France to self-organize and decolonize, Black Feminists around the world are fighting interconnected (yet unique) struggles.
Co-creating Feminist Futures: The journey continues
A year ago today, 1,800 feminists and women’s rights advocates from all corners of our movements gathered on the shores of Bahia for the 13th AWID International Forum.
Why we need a Black Feminisms Forum
The Black Feminisms Forum (BFF) takes place 5 - 6 September 2016, ahead of the AWID Forum in Bahia, Brazil.
The BFF will connect Black and Afrodescendant feminists from many regions of the world to celebrate the contribution of Black feminisms to knowledge, practice and struggles for self-determination and justice, while building solidarity and collective power.
Radical Acts: An interview with Caron Gugssa-Howard and Camira Powell
The Black Feminisms Forum (BFF) is scheduled to take place in early September this year in Salvador, Brazil, ahead of the 2016 Association for Women’s Rights in Development Forum. It will bring together Black feminists from different communities and contexts across the globe to celebrate the contribution of Black feminisms to knowledge, practice and struggles for self- determination and justice, while building solidarity across the boundaries of nation states.
Supporting art for change
In this first conversation – AWID's Arts & Culture Coordinator Amina Doherty sits down with donors, artists, and activists from diverse social movements, contexts and backgrounds to discuss their work, alternative strategies for organising and the value of supporting (and funding!) art.
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.
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.
"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.
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.