Sowing Seeds of Collective Power
“We are women who unfortunately have been taught to be very submissive, but when we all get together and combine the powers that each one of us has, we are women who can transform the reality we live in.”
Feminist Popular Education is a liberating endeavor
An interview with Ronald Wesso Mariela Arce and Manuela Arancibia connected with Ronald Wesso over Zoom to discuss his expertise and understanding of Feminist Popular Education (FPE) in Southern Africa and gather insights for JASS’ forthcoming new FPE Guide. During…
Struggles, Movements, and Resistances Transformed into Alchemy
We women occupy a special space when we speak of struggles for land and territory and resistance against the extractivist economic model that has been promoted throughout the Mesoamerican region and many regions of the world. This extractivist economic model…
Unresigned
I am sweating. I am alone, sitting with a phone pressed to my ear, waiting. My heart is beating, I am trying to breathe but feel nauseous. I am dreading what might happen next. It could change everything. I am…
Lutong Baybay (Seaside Recipes): Feeding our Resistance
In July 2021, the City Council of Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Philippines) approved a motion that would pave the way for the construction of a 174-hectare reclamation project. Various groups—scientists, environmentalists, fisherfolk, several youth and progressive groups—decried the railroading of the…
The Ixpop Collective: Breaking Ground for the Recognition of Indigenous Women’s Rights
Indigenous women have made great strides in the formal recognition of their rights in recent decades, through advances in indigenous rights and in women’s rights. Most of the progress can be directly attributed to the consistent organizing and advocacy of…
Sharing Leadership Sustains Ourselves and Our Movements
In August of 2021, Nubia Casco realized she felt exhausted, spent. The Covid pandemic and strict lockdown measures by the Honduran government had compounded the usual challenges she faced as leader of the Network of Rural Women of Ojojona. To…
Cambodia: Building & Multiplying Women’s Leadership in Trade Unions
The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), a union representing workers in the garment and footwear industries in Cambodia, has taken important steps to adopt a feminist approach to leadership. Since electing its first woman president Sophorn Yang in 2011,…
Malawi: Women practice organic farming to sustain livelihoods and protect the environment
The women organized in the Our Bodies, Our Lives (OBOL) Movement in Mzimba South East, Khosolo in northern Malawi have long faced the challenges of precarious livelihoods and lack of access to basic needs. But when the COVID-19 pandemic and…
