Runway to Feminist Justice

Episode 36: Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence with Mary Balikungeri

Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence This series brings together the voices of feminist practitioners who are re-defining what intimate partner violence prevention looks like in their communities. We explore conceptual and political insights from the research on practitioner-led evidence that can shape more equitable and grounded funding strategies. Explore the full research at: ⁠www.thefeministcentre.org/consulting-research/ ⁠ [www.thefeministcentre.org/consulting-research/ ] Bio Mary Balikungeri is the Founder and Executive Director of Rwanda Women’s Network, established in 1997 to empower women and girls, especially survivors of gender-based violence. Inspired by her own experiences of displacement and injustice, she has dedicated her career to advancing healing, economic empowerment, leadership, and advocacy for women. Under her leadership, RWN has supported thousands of women and children through health centers, safe spaces, and education initiatives, while strengthening responses to GBV. Mary is also a prominent advocate for gender equality and peace at national and international levels and received the Queen Elizabeth Point of Light Award in 2018 for her impactful leadership. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Muthoni Muriithi Editing: Rachel Wamoto & Daniel Ondieki Audio Correction: Daniel Ondieki Sound Design: Rachel Wamoto Mixing & Mastering: OV Media  Music: Miromax Music - Background News [438895] from Pixabay

Episode 35: Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence with Fatma Ibrahim

Spotlight: Feminist Practitioners Preventing Intimate Partner Violence. This series brings together the voices of feminist practitioners who are re-defining what intimate partner violence prevention looks like in their communities. We explore conceptual and political insights from the research on practitioner-led evidence that can shape more equitable and grounded funding strategies. Explore the full research at: www.thefeministcentre.org/consulting-research/ [www.thefeministcentre.org/consulting-research/ ]Bio Fatma Ibrahim is a feminist academic researcher with a PhD in feminist Political Science, and activist engaging with feminist thought and practice across multiple avenues. She is the director of The Sex Talk Arabic, a feminist and queer digital platform she launched in 2018 to raise awareness on the causes of sexual and gender based violence and promote sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice as well as to provide positive, feminist and queer sex education in Arabic. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Marie-Simone Kadurira Editing: Rachel Wamoto & Daniel Ondieki Audio Correction: Daniel Ondieki Sound Design: Rachel Wamoto Mixing & Mastering: OV Media  Music: Paul Yudin - Breaking News Intro from Pixabay

Episode 34: 10 Questions with Professor Toni Haastrup

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio Prof. Toni Haastrup is Chair in Global Politics at the University of Manchester since September2023. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh. An award-winning teacher and researcher, she is a 2022 recipient of the Emma Goldman Award [https://www.flax-foundation.net/kopie-van-emma-goldman-awardees-2021] from the FLAX Foundation for contributions to feminist research and knowledge in Europe, and the Emma GoldmanFellowship [https://www.iwm.at/fellow/toni-haastrup] of the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences. She is also a recipient of the ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship  [https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/professor-toni-haastrup/]2023-2024. Her research interrogates the manifestation of power hierarchies in global politics, with research interests encompassing a wide range of topics within internationalstudies, including peace and security in Africa, feminist, postcolonial and decolonial approaches to international relations, and regional and globalgovernance – she has published extensively in these areas. In addition to her academic work, Toni frequently works with government organs and international organisations, offering expertise on themes linked to the Women, Peace andSecurity (WPS) agenda and Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP). She provides occasional commentary to news media on current affairs related to Africa's international relations and Western foreign policies in Africa. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Amrita DasGupta Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln Hyde Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay

Episode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM Rodriguez

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  Bio S.M. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights in the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. They are the author of The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational LGBTI Organizing in Uganda (2019), which used ethnography, interviews, and policy analysis to challenge the scholarly imagination of European and American human rights intervention in LGBTI politics in Africa as inherently helpful. They are the founder of Black Queer Movements, a knowledge exchange hub for activists and scholar-activists across the African continent and Diaspora, and of The Black Professors Pipeline, which addresses underrepresentation of faculty of African descent in the U.K. higher education. Dr Rodriguez’s research joins anti-carceral, Black, and queer feminist approaches to interrogate sexual politics, especially as related to criminal law and “correctional” practices. As such, their work explores various practices and philosophies of justice and transformative changemaking.  Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Vasiliki Vita Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln Hyde Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay

Episode 32: 10 Questions with Dr. Lucia Kula

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture.  BioLucia Kula is an international lawyer and lecturer in Law and Gender at SOAS, University of London. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to law, borders, gendered violence, and decolonisation. She is a former refugee from Angola and writes on law, violence, and forced displacement within the African context. Her work has a critical focus on women's lived experiences and gender expansive identities. She convenes the LLM and MA in Law and Gender, and she is part of the Leadership Team in the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice at SOAS. She also consults for other Higher Education institutions in the UK on Race Equity and Decolonising The Academy.  Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Vasiliki Vita Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln Hyde Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay