Runway to Feminist Justice

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 Dzodzi Tsikata is Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. She spent thirty years at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Researc...

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 Ida Hadjivayanis is an academic at SOAS University of London where she lectures on Swahili studies and Translation. She has translated Dhulma (2025) and Peponi (2022), the Swahili transla...

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. Yolande Bouka is the Canada Research Chair on Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation, and an Associate Professor of gender and politics and international relations at Queen...

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 Alessandra Mezzadri is Professor in Global Development and Political Economy at SOAS, London. She is the author of The Sweatshop Regime  (CUP, 2017,2021), lead-author of The Social Life o...

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. Kuziwakwashe Zigomo is a Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Lecturer of Politics and International Relations of Africa & Migration at SOAS, University of London....

In this episode, we talk to FCRJ's Activist in Residence Nina Chizungu, who has developed a living feminist archive documenting how women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi move from surviving conflict and gender-based violence to leading, organizing, and shaping governance in their communities. We explore why Nina's project, From Survival to Governance: Women of the...

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...