One year ago, we launched the South Feminist Knowledge Hub with a deeply collective vision: to create a living, dynamic, and multilingual archive of feminist theory and praxis from the South. Rooted in our research, activism, movements, and communities, the Hub is more than an online resource – it is a political project to challenge colonial, patriarchal, capitalist, and Eurocentric knowledge hegemonies.
On this first anniversary, we are not just marking the passage of time. We are celebrating a radical act of resistance – reclaiming our histories, reviving our ways of knowing, and building the feminist genealogies of the South. This is an act of epistemic disobedience, a refusal to be erased, and a commitment to imagining and constructing more just and sustainable worlds.
The Dialogue Event
Date: 9 September 2025
Time: 2-4 PM UTC
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, with sign language interpretation
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To mark this milestone, South Feminist Futures will host a multilingual dialogue — Building South Feminist Genealogies: A Dialogue on Memory, Resistance, and Insurgent Epistemologies.
The conversation will bring together feminist archivists, collectives, researchers, activists, and artists to reflect on the power of knowledge production as a decolonial act and the importance of theorising our practices as much as putting theory into action.
We’re delighted to have incredible speakers with us:
- Margarita Olivera has been a professor and researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 2015. She teaches courses on feminist economics and development, coordinates the project Economy and Feminisms and the Research Centre on Economy and Feminisms, and is a member of the Brazilian Network of Feminist Economics. She co-organised the book Feminist Economics in Brazil: Contributions to Thinking about a New Society. She holds a PhD in Political Economy from La Sapienza University of Rome and her research focuses on feminist economics, decolonial feminism, and Latin American development.
- Danila Suárez Tomé holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, where she also teaches courses in Feminist Philosophy and Gnoseology. She leads the Feminist Epistemology Research Group at SADAF and her research explores phenomenology and epistemology from a feminist perspective. She is the author of several books, including Introduction to Feminist Theory and Feminist Epistemology, and co-hosts the program Noticias de Ayer and the podcast Ocultonas.
- Sally Al Haq is the co-lead of The Liberatory Archives and Memory at Whose Knowledge? and co-founder of the Ikhtyar Feminist Collective. A writer, feminist, and educator, her work focuses on the intersections of gender, history, colonialism, and nationalism, with an emphasis on decolonized approaches to knowledge and education. She has advised the FRIDA Feminist Fund, taught at Leiden University, and continues to develop archives as a medium for co-creating collective and digital memories.
- Michaela Danjé is of Afro-Caribbean descent and a co-founder of the anti-authoritarian Black collective Cases Rebelles. She is an independent researcher, writer, and multidisciplinary artist with a master’s degree in gender studies and modern literature. She edited and contributed to AfroTrans (2021), the first French-language book on Black trans identities written by Black trans people.
We will reflect about…
- How is feminist knowledge production an act of resistance, and why do we speak of situated knowledge?
- What can we learn from legitimate and illegitimate knowledge, marginalised knowledge, embodied knowledge, and the wisdoms of those most erased from dominant systems?
- How do we unlearn colonial logics in our ways of thinking, researching, archiving, and creating?
- What do we need to build South feminist genealogies that reclaim space, create new spaces, and break away from epistemic extractivism?
Why does this matter now…
We live in a time when hyper-imperialist forces seek to dominate culture, memory, and knowledge. This dialogue is a call to dismantle colonial power structures and to build a new feminist knowledge of genealogies rooted in the lived realities, memories, and futures of the peoples of the South. Explore this blog post to learn more about!
This event will be a space to share memory, deepen political continuity, and strengthen Southern feminist power across borders.
Join us in celebrating the South Feminist Knowledge Hub’s first year – and in building the genealogies, solidarities, and futures we need.
