During the third plenary of the 13th International AWID Forum, Co-Creating New Futures, Coumba Toure made a powerful statement: “There will be no future if it’s not feminist.”
Hearing this statement, I immediately imagine a beautiful future where no one ever has to take the streets to demand their humanity; where land and water are always more sacred than profits; and where our bodies are never policed. However during the plenary, the Fearless Collective, an international collective of activists fighting gender violence through art, challenged participants to understand that in order to create that feminist future we have to suspend disbelief.
But what does it mean to suspend disbelief? According to Shilo Shiv Suleman, founder and ...
During the third plenary of the 13th International AWID Forum, Co-Creating New Futures, Coumba Toure made a powerful statement: “There will be no future if it’s not feminist.”
Hearing this statement, I immediately imagine a beautiful future where ...
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