[EN] Pillar 1: Confronting Hegemonies 24Apr2024 by FPAR Academy

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What are the hegemonies that you were imagining in the exercises? Who were they? What are they doing? How are they exercising and cementing their power?

fparacademy — 2024-04-18 07:57:16 UTC

What is the nature of hegemonic power in feminist movements? How do we confront the hierarchies of power and privilege around race, north-south location, class, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in our movement?

fparacademy — 2024-04-18 07:57:16 UTC

How should South feminist movements deal with these hegemonies & hegemonic power?

fparacademy — 2024-04-18 07:57:16 UTC

Beena - Survival as Resistance - “If I am surviving, I am already breaking the system.”

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:44:00 UTC

Priyanka - The problem of Homogenising Women's experiences by elite women from dominant castes.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:49:04 UTC

Whether you acknowledge it or not, caste manifests in one’s life. Caste within the feminist movement in India. The Feminist movement is dominated by the dominant caste communities not just in India but overall south asia. The movement is 100 percent led by dominant caste women, who end up generalizing their own lived realities as all women’s realities, which leads to the systematic erasure of intersectional identities of, for, e.g., a Dalit woman who is also disabled. There is also invisivlising muslim women’s realities.

Priyanka - Tokenistic representation of marginalised women, "we don’t want tokenistic representation, we want substantive and transformational representation".

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:51:33 UTC

Priyanka - Appropriation of resources by dominant caste feminists: they don’t look at us as equal partners but as mere beneficiaries. We don’t want to be just beneficiaries, there is need to have women from marginalised women as active participants.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:53:07 UTC

Transformational Solidarity: A Dalit Feminist Viewpoint - I recently wrote an article where I delve into the issue of hegemony within the Indian Feminist Movement.

2024-04-24 07:57:01 UTC

Arie - Limiting women’s rights in the name of tradition and religion. limiting women’s autonomy in name of religion. The liberal economic system also leads to land grabbing, resources grabbing, all sorts of grabbing.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:57:25 UTC

Arie -The global south countries are often trapped in the cycle of debt, militarization is another big problem, the current president elected in Indonesia was a military general, dominant narratives in mainstream movement, the interests of the powerful ends up shaping public opinion, as happened in the case of current president.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:57:46 UTC

Arie - The current movements are very fragmented, we need intersections. Labour movements only talk of labour, environment only of environment and so on... 2025 will be 75 years of bandung, but what do we have in terms of global south community.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 07:59:20 UTC

Arie - We need to build community based economy that can challenge global capitalistic system.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 08:01:06 UTC

Debajani - Lack of unity in the movement

info27143 — 2024-04-24 08:16:46 UTC

Debajani - The digital divide is also essential to take into account.

info27143 — 2024-04-24 08:17:17 UTC