Decolonial Feminism
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Intersectional Feminism and the Climate Crisis: The Perfect Storm of 2024
Climate shocks, tech-driven discrimination, economic stress, and regressive politics are converging into a perfect storm hitting the most marginalized hardest. Intersectional analysis reveals how multiple oppressions interact.
Queer Indigenous Feminism
The Red Nation's resource page frames queer Indigenous feminism through kinship, reciprocity, anti-colonial politics, and gender and sexual diversity, making it a practical entry point into key texts and movement materials.
🎧Podcasts6
The Gender at Work Podcast
The Gender at Work Podcast is hosted by Aruna Rao and Joanne Sandler, featuring conversations with global feminist activists, scholars, and community practitioners. The show takes a critical perspective exploring issues of love, policy, war, and cross-cultural alliances, emphasizing the intersection of decolonization, anti-militarization, and emotional politics. With a style that blends theoretical depth with cross-regional experience, it has a Spotify rating of 4.2 (6 reviews) and significant influence in international feminist communities.
Intersectional Feminism—Desi Style!
Intersectional Feminism—Desi Style! is a podcast produced by Feminism In India that focuses on intersectional feminist issues within the South Asian context. Hosted by Sukanya Shaji and Shriya Roy, the show covers stereotypes and challenges faced by women in politics, technology, pornography, media, and development, emphasizing decolonial perspectives and gender justice. With a critically sharp and culturally astute style, it's perfect for audiences interested in South Asian women's experiences and intersectional issues. Rated 4.7 on Spotify (47 reviews), it stands as a representative work among Indian feminist podcasts.
Probably Cancelled Podcast
Probably Cancelled Podcast is a Marxist feminist podcast hosted by a group of radical educators and researchers, dedicated to exploring deep politics, women's issues, and social structural problems ignored by mainstream media. The show covers capitalist crisis theory, transnational revolutionary history, the intersection of mysticism and technology, and violence mechanisms under the interweaving of patriarchy and racism. With a frank, critically strong style, it has a Spotify rating of 4.3 (358 reviews) and high influence in radical leftist and feminist communities.
Women on the Line
Women on the Line is an Australian feminist current affairs podcast co-produced by multiple hosts, focusing on global gender justice, colonial critique, and community action. Presented in radio news format, the content covers Palestinian decolonial movements, public housing struggles, tech hegemony critique, and ecofeminist practice. With a serious, critically strong style emphasizing marginalized community voices and cross-cultural women's experiences. Spotify rating of 5.0 (5 reviews), representative in Australia's progressive broadcasting network.
Land and Indigenous Feminist Resurgences
This FCRJ episode features Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Indigenous resistance across Turtle Island, land, transnational organizing, solidarity, and resurgence strategies, connecting Indigenous feminism with land politics and anti-colonial practice.
Decolonizing Sex
This All My Relations episode with Kim TallBear discusses critical polyamory, Indigenous relational ethics, feminism, and settler marriage, making it a key audio resource on how sex, intimacy, and family are structured by colonial power.
📄Papers4
Unsettling Feminism in Social Work: Toward an Indigenous Decolonial Feminism
This research critically examines how feminism and social work have historically participated in colonial projects, perpetuating structural violence rooted in white supremacy. The author proposes an Indigenous decolonial feminist framework, emphasizing that social work should reorient its justice goals toward collective liberation and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position
Sharmila Rege responds to and extends Gopal Guru's argument, proposing Dalit women's experience as a critical standpoint rather than a fixed boundary of difference. The essay matters for Indian feminism, anti-caste politics, and feminist epistemology.
Can the Subaltern Speak?
This foundational text of postcolonial feminist theory questions the possibility of Western intellectuals representing the oppressed. Through analyzing colonial discourse on Indian widow immolation (sati), Spivak reveals the imperialist logic of 'white men saving brown women from brown men,' arguing that subaltern women are structurally silenced under the dual oppression of colonialism and patriarchy.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
This influential essay critiques exclusionary practices within the feminist movement, arguing that using the tools and methods of oppressive systems to fight oppression is doomed to fail. Lorde calls for recognizing and embracing difference as a source of strength, emphasizing that true liberation requires creating entirely new frameworks rather than seeking reform within existing power structures.