[EN] Pillar 2: Building a new knowledge base for South Feminist activism by FPAR Academy

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How do we challenge the ideological dominance of the neoliberal, minority world dogma in shaping macro economic policy for the majority world

2024-03-27 12:58:00 UTC

Have feminist agendas become too donor driven? Are they eurocentric and can they be shifted from eurocentric coloniality to centre non white perspectives

2024-03-27 12:59:27 UTC

Can we draw on South South feminist realities , solutions and liberatory ideas on the economy, development , international relations etc?

2024-03-27 13:00:40 UTC

Tinatswe on decolonising education

2024-03-27 14:09:56 UTC

Decolonising education first of all. The custodians of our stories and research in the south cannot all be from white feminists !!

Beena on ghettoization of knowledge

2024-03-27 14:12:34 UTC

For long the dominant castes researched and talked about the experiences of the marginalized communities while not looking at their own communities, ghettoization of knowledge as people from the dominant community dominate the knowledge domains.

Peggy on global south feminist voices

2024-03-27 14:17:55 UTC

CSW had no conversation on gaza and still having the slogan “invest in women”, having more women in leadership has been exposed as fraud, we have learnt that within those black and female bodies are people who don’t want a different world and want to reinforce the current world. In mid-70s there was a group of black women invited to wellesly college, as these women heard white women talking about africa and these women created AWID, finding our own voice as black anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal feminists. Like the group “whose knowledge” by Anasuya Sengupta

Totally emptied of all revolutionary impetus, sanitised, depoliticised.

2024-03-27 14:19:12 UTC

Elina on the current knowledge structures

2024-03-27 14:22:48 UTC

We want to be recognised as specialists, on one hand we want to dismantle the current systems of knowledge, on the other hand we are chasing the same degrees and the ladder. As we want to reinvent the world, Elina shared her own journey of recognising the contradictions in the work of UN.

Patrice - We want to be legitimised by these same oppressive institutions

2024-03-27 14:23:14 UTC

Our feminisms have been completely coopted by as Trimita says, our "arch-enemies", Totally emptied of all revolutionary impetus, sanitised, depoliticised.

2024-03-27 14:25:21 UTC

Tinatswe - grassroots orgs have to either assimilate or kiss funding goodbye. How do we divest when we have no negotiating power

2024-03-27 14:26:44 UTC

Trimita - A lot of these high net worth led donors are just trying to avoid paying taxes. We should just get rid of those foundations.

2024-03-27 14:29:50 UTC

Sweden's Support

2024-03-27 14:36:41 UTC

Chat

Trimita - Apparently Sweden will pull out massive funds creating a vacuum

Lebohang - We need to do a lot of mobilising of local income possibilities and local indegenous ‘philantrophy’

Eliana - Yes, right-wing parties in power shifting how aid/cooperation programmes are managed

It also puts in evidence the need to re-think our dependence of these funds

Peggy - Re “development models” - there can be no single model but we can start by rejecting the growth-orientated, extractives model of neoliberalism

2024-03-27 14:44:56 UTC

Peggy on solidarity economies

2024-03-27 14:45:34 UTC

There’s a lot of interest now in solidarity economies - ways in which grassroots women have pooled resources to meet their needs for finance

Dinda - independence from donors

2024-03-27 14:46:16 UTC

Doesn’t want to put the responsibility on the movement’s shoulder, but some groups now also trying to build the solidarity economy model in the communities, and expect that one day, they can be independent from donors