Feminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
52 articles
Minna Salami maps African feminism as a dynamic intellectual and movement tradition, resisting both Western universalism and the claim that feminism is alien to African histories.
Minna Salami / 9 minsMingus names the structural experience of disabled people being forced to disclose bodies, needs, medical histories, and vulnerability in order to access basic survival.
Mia Mingus / 8 minsSins Invalid condenses disability justice into principles including intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation.
Sins Invalid / 6 minsPatty Berne's Sins Invalid essay distinguishes disability rights from disability justice, centering intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, collective access, and collective liberation.
Patty Berne / 10 minsA regional evidence base on Indigenous women’s physical, economic, and political autonomy that also exposes how statistical invisibility limits rights, policy, and accountability.
ECLAC / CELADE / Gender Equality Observatory / 12 minsMingus writes from disability justice to critique how beauty, normality, and desirability organize bodily value, proposing a liberatory politics of moving toward the ugly.
Mia Mingus / 9 minsMia Mingus introduces access intimacy: the bodily ease, trust, and relational safety that can emerge when someone deeply understands and respects a disabled person's access needs.
Mia Mingus / 8 minsMia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.
Mia Mingus / 8 minsThrough a fictional roundtable dialogue, this article explores the diverse perspectives, internal tensions, and the profound impact of race, class, and gender identity on contemporary feminism.
Kate M. Ott / 5 minsThis movement case study shows how sex workers in southwest India built collective leadership, challenged police violence and rescue politics, and forced feminist organizations to confront their own moral boundaries.
SANGRAM/VAMP Team / 14 minsBuilt from reports by groups in thirty countries, Musawah’s global study argues that unequal Muslim family laws are historically constructed and therefore open to reform grounded in faith, rights, constitutions, and lived reality.
Musawah / 35 minsAdopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter defines African feminism as a political commitment to dismantling patriarchy while demanding accountability inside feminist organizations themselves.
African Feminist Forum / 12 mins