A year ago, we launched the South Feminist Knowledge Hub with the aim to build a living archive of Southern feminist knowledge – theory and praxis – grounded in our collective history, activism, movements, and communities. On its first anniversary, we celebrate the radical acts of resisting, remembering, and recording.
The Knowledge Hub is not just a digital resource, but a declaration:
We reclaim, revive and reveal our knowledge, rooted in lived experiences, social struggles, and collective wisdom.
Southern feminist movements have long been on the frontlines of resistance, seeking to dismantle the matrix of domination – capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, and all structures of oppression and hierarchies of power. However, the knowledge we make through our analyses, activism, organising, care practices, lived experiences, and creative work is often pushed to the margins of mainstream, dominant discourse.
The South Feminist Knowledge Hub resists this erasure. It is a call for recuperating feminist knowledge genealogies, epistemic disobedience, radical imagination, and the construction of a new order of knowledge – one where our Southern feminist solidarity and ways of living, resisting, and creating are at the center. It is an invitation to refuse hegemonic colonial standards around what counts as knowledge, whose voices are heard, and whose experiences are seen – and instead, to center our own collective truths and wisdoms as vital to shaping what knowledge is to the people of the South.
We celebrate by overcoming challenges and resisting oppression, but also by embracing the joy and pleasure that our journey towards a feminist future of social justice brings us.
We want to celebrate in community – and we invite you to join us! Over the next six weeks, we will carry out a series of actions, including publishing blog posts on the Knowledge Hub website, recommending readings and authors, as well as sharing musical and artistic pieces that inspire us.
We will also host a multilingual dialogue to reflect on how feminists are creating new, liberatory, decolonial orders of knowledge, and how we can build a feminist genealogy of knowledge, thought, and practice. Join us for Building South Feminist Genealogies: Dialogue on Memory, Resistance and Insurgent Epistemologies on 9th September, 2-4 PM UTC. Watch out for the registrations and curated resources.
Please stay tuned – there’s more to come!
