Ed.note: This post is part of a series we’re running this month as part of a media partnership with the Association of Women in Development (AWID) to cover their semi-annual Forum. The 2016 Forum took place earlier this month in Brazil and explored diverse perspectives on “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” with a focus on voices from the Global South. 

Pakistani feminist Farida Shaheed gives a slogan for azaadi, freedom in Urdu. The whole hall joins in. It is the final plenary of the Association of Women in Development (AWID) conference, on Feminist Visions for the Future, and in asking the room to proclaim this slogan, Shaheed evokes a long history of South Asian feminist organizers’ radical visions ...