Runway to Feminist Justice

In this episode, we talk to FCRJ's Activist in Residence Tamara Isaac about her project on language justice across South–South migration, bringing together experiences from Haiti, Brazil, and beyond. Tamara explores how language intersects with race, gender, legal status, and disability to shape migrants', and particularly Black women migrants', access to rights and services. She discusses what it...

Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence This series brings together the voices of feminist practitioners who are re-defining what intimate partner violence prevention looks like in their communities. We explore conceptual and political insights from the research on practitioner-led evidence that can shape more equitable and grounded funding strategies. Explore the fu...

Em Destaque: Profissionais feministas na prevenção da violência doméstica Esta série reúne as vozes de profissionais feministas que estão redefinindo o que significa prevenção da violência doméstica em suas comunidades. Exploramos perspectivas conceituais e políticas da pesquisa sobre evidências práticas que podem moldar estratégias de financiamento mais equitativas e fundamentadas. Explore a pesq...

Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence This series brings together the voices of feminist practitioners who are re-defining what intimate partner violence prevention looks like in their communities. We explore conceptual and political insights from the research on practitioner-led evidence that can shape more equitable and grounded funding strategies. Explore the fu...

Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence. This series brings together the voices of feminist practitioners who are re-defining what intimate partner violence prevention looks like in their communities. We explore conceptual and political insights from the research on practitioner-led evidence that can shape more equitable and grounded funding strategies. Explore the f...

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio Prof. Toni Haastrup is Chair in Global Politics at the University of Manchester since September2023. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh. An award-winning teacher...

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio S.M. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights in the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. They are the author of  The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnationa...

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio Lucia Kula is an international lawyer and lecturer in Law and Gender at SOAS, University of London. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to law, borders, gendered violence, a...

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio Odile Mackett is an associate professor in the University of Johannesburg’s Department of Anthropology and Development Studies. She is an economist by training and has an MCom in Applied...

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio Dr Eleanor Newbigin is a historian of imperialism and decolonisation in twentieth-century South Asia. Her research explores how the end of formal colonial rule reshaped governance, citize...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School In this final episode of our Spotlight Series, Awino Okech, Director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ), and Shereen Essof, Executive Director of Just Associates (JASS) have a reflective conversation on the three-year partnership co-creating the Feminist Movement Builders Schools (FMBS). The schools, convened across Latin America and Eas...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School We are in conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in from August 2024-August 2025. About the episode In this episode, we speak with Larisa W. Chikanya, a gender, peace and governance specialist from Zimbabwe whose work spans feminist leadership, inclusive peacebuildi...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School We are in conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in from August 2024-August 2025. About the episode 🎙️ Content note: this episode discusses LGBTQ+ rights and community organising in contexts of risk. In this episode, Nadia Asri speaks with Auma Maureen, a feminist o...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School We are in conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in from August 2024-August 2025. About the episode 🎙️ Content warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual violence in conflict In episode 26, host Nadia Asri speaks with Samrawit Assefa, a Gender-Based Violenc...

About the Legacy Series The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time. About the episode In the final episode of our Legacy Series with Françoise Vergès, we look forward to the politics of dreaming, imagining, and organising beyond the colonial systems of violence that...

About the legacy series The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time. About the episode In the second episode of our Legacy Series with Françoise Vergès, we move from memory to critique. Françoise unpacks her analyses of carceral feminism and the NGO-isation of justice...

About the legacy series The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time. About the episode In this first episode of our Legacy Series with Françoise Vergès, we begin with formation: how place, memory, and the anti-colonial struggles of Réunion Island shaped Françoise’s ea...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Builders School These episodes are a conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in August 2024. About the episode In this episode of Runway to Feminist Justice , Nadia Asri speaks with Christie Banda, a feminist leader from Malawi. Christie reflects on her leadership journey, the power...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Builders School These episodes are a conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in August 2024. About the episode In this bonus episode, Nadia Asri is joined by feminist and social Justice advocate Cyprine Omollo for a discussion on the obstacles and barriers she faces as an activist a...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School These episodes are a conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in August 2024. About the episode In this episode, Nadia Asri sits down with feminist activist Grace Nyarath to discuss the obstacles she faces when advocating for sex worker rights and overcoming counter-p...

About the legacy series The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time. About the episode In the final episode of our Legacy Series with Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, we explore how she extended her feminist work into politics during her tenure as the spouse of the Governor of Ek...

About this episode In this episode Awino Okech sits down with South African award winning musician Simphiwe Dana to discuss 20 years in music, artivism and music as therapy Bio Simphiwe Dana, a multiple award-winning South African artist. Simphiwe’s commercial and critical success came with her debut album Zandisile in 2004. This was followed by The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street in 2007,...

About the legacy series The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time. About the episode In part two of our Legacy Series conversation with Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, we examine her leadership in global feminist spaces. From the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to...

In this episode, we talk to FCRJ’s Activists in Residence Silvia Sánchez and Sonia Cardona, who have developed a thematic repository of booklets addressing violence against Indigenous women in El Salvador, Colombia, and Ecuador.  We explore how their project sheds light on the complex, multifaceted violence faced by Indigenous women. Silvia and Sonia discuss the importance of Indigenous women’s vo...

About the legacy series The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time. About the episode In the first episode of our three-part Legacy Series with Pan-African feminist Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, we trace the early years of her journey from her birth in Liverpool in 1963 to fo...