Crafting Narratives for a Feminist Philanthropic Future
With Thays Prado from Feminist Futures
From its inception tech has been tied to power & privilege and “knowledge supply” has been dominated & controlled by a few in the global north. They have decided what knowledge counts and who is recognized as a knowledge holder.
What might justice based tech and communications infrastructures look like? How do we think about knowledge reparations? How do we build infrastructures that are steward by us and hold our feminist values?
Resources & tools
Impact stories & examples:
The Nawi Anthology is a beautiful collage of feminist thinkings and imaginings. Curated and designed in 2022, Prayers for a Cruel Blessed World is a creative documentation of the movement, an inspiration for the dream.
This paper discusses: (1) the genesis of contemporary Black feminism; (2) what we believe, i.e., the specific province of our politics; (3) the problems in organizing Black feminists, including a brief herstory of our collective; and (4) Black feminist issues and practice.
The African Feminist Forum took place from 15 - 19 November 2006 in Accra, Ghana. The meeting brought together over 100 feminist activists from all over the region and the diaspora and developed the Charter of Feminist Principles. The Charter sets out the collective values that we hold as key to our work and to our lives as African feminists. It charts the change we wish to see in our communities, and also how this change is to be achieved. In addition it spells out our individual and collective responsibilities to the movement and to one another within the movement.
“I want to live in a place where respect, a sense of humanity and belonging and community is there.”