Runway to Feminist 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 This is the third and final part of our legacy series conversation with Kaari Murungi. In this episode we explore Kaari’s legacy as co-founder of the Urgent Action Fund, her pioneer...

Content note: Listeners are advised that this episode contains graphic descriptions of the aftermath of genocide crimes. 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 2 of our legacy series with Betty Kaari Murungi, we...

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 This is the first part of a three-episode conversation with Betty Kaari Murungi as part of our ongoing Legacy Series. In this episode, Kaari shares with us the early events that sha...

FCRJ Director Awino Okech shares the rationale for setting up the legacy series. Credits Speaker: Awino Okech  Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice  Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde  Music: Intro , by Red Roses Realm, www.instagram.com/redrosesrealm/ 

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 third and final episode with Sarah Mukasa, Awino discusses her transition to global philanthropy. Sarah explores the complexities of navigating private philanthropy as someone from the...

About the 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 2 of the three part conversation with Sarah Mukasa, we hear her insights on the creation of the African Feminist Forum, investments in feminist leadership, and the African Grantmak...

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 This is a three-part conversation with Sarah Mukasa as part of the legacy series. Awino Okech talks to Sarah over three episodes about her life, feminism and legacy. Bio Sarah Mukas...

Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School Over three episodes we will converse with four participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in August 2024. About the episode In episode 18, Nadia Asri sits down with feminist activist, Ann K. Holland to discuss the importance of youth involvement and inclusion in feminist and social justi...

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds. About ep...

This is a bonus episode between Awino Okech in conversation with Thandiswa Mazwai. The conversation was held when Thandiswa was on tour in London in November 2024 Bio Thandiswa Mazwai is one of the most influential post-Apartheid singers in South Africa who began her career in 1996. Known for her electrifying performances, Thandiswa has performed all over the world at venues including the Tiny Des...

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 Episode 15 part 4 is the fourth and final episode featuring EJ, or Everjoice Win. In this episode, we turn to the subject of ‘legacies’. EJ schools us in how to confront the ‘death by a thous...

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 episode 15 part 3, we begin with a little political education as the context of working in women’s rights during a time when, as EJ says, ‘the wheels fell off’ the Zimbabwean economy, befo...

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 episode In Episode 15 part 2, EJ recounts her rise through Women in Law and Development in Africa – or WILDAF – detailing the advantages and pitfalls of international gatherings in development spaces, re...

In episode 16 as FCRJ marks the second anniversary of FCRJ, we share a discussion between Founding Director Professor Awino Okech and Lydia Ayame Hiraide, FCRJ's former post doctoral fellow. They explore the ongoing reversals around racial justice work globally and its meaning for the interventions of institutions such as the FCRJ. Awino Okech is Professor of Feminist and Security Studies at S...

Legacy Series Welcome to the launch of our 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 this episode This inaugural episode is a four-part conversation with Everjoice Win or as she popularly known EJ. Awino Okech talks to EJ over four episodes abou...

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds. About ep...

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds. About ep...

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds. About ep...

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds. About ep...

Leadership Series In episode 10 FCRJ Director Awino Okech speaks to Nyawira Wahito, from Resource Centre for Women and Girls (RCWG). The conversation explores what it means to embody and develop leadership skills and roles, as well as approaches to work and living well. Nyawira is a Kenyan feminist passionate about investing in the leadership potential and personal transformation of girls and youn...

Leadership Series In episode 9 FCRJ Director Awino Okech speaks to Shuvai Busuman Nyoni from the African Leadership Centre (ALC). Shuvai Busuman Nyoni is the Executive Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC), Nairobi, Kenya. She is also a Gender, Peace and Security researcher and practitioner. The ALC is a research and training institution that focuses on raising next generation African le...

Leadership Series In episode 8 FCRJ Director Awino Okech speaks to Shereen Essof, from Just Associates (JASS). The conversation explores what it means to reflect on and practice feminist leadership, responding to multiple crises around the world in collective ways, and grappling with loneliness in leadership. Shereen Essof is a Zimbabwean feminist, popular educator and organiser.  Shereen’s work i...

In episode 7, Lydia Ayame Hiraide speaks to Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about Indigenous modes of resistance against settler domination across Turtle Island. Leanne and Lydia talk about transnational social movement organising, land, solidarity, and creative strategies for resurgence.  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been w...

Content warning: This episode contains mentions of sexual and anti-LGBTQI+ violence. In episode 6 Lydia Ayame Hiraide speaks to Benedicta Oyèdayọ̀ Oyèwọlé about intersectional disability justice. Benedicta Oyèdayọ̀ Oyèwọlé is a young woman with a disability, who works and lives at the intersection of gender, disability, and sexuality. In 2022, she spearheaded a first-of-its-kind study into the liv...

In episode 5 Lydia Ayame Hiraide speaks to Dayna Ash about art, politics, the notion of ‘borders’ and creating space. Dayna Ash is an intersectional feminist, performing artist, published writer, playwright, and the founder & Executive Director of Haven for Artists; a cultural feminist organization working at the intersection of art and activism. She was named one of the BBC's 100 most inspira...