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Feminist Realities Toolkit - Virtual Activity

Invitation & Welcome

● Introduce and/or deepen your familiarity with the Feminist Realities framework & Toolkit

● Have you feeling excited and ready to submita proposal for the upcoming AWID International Forum!

Note: Please record and save your questions to the end

We aspire to….

Feminist Realities

● Type in the chat:

○ Your name

○ Gender pronouns

○ Organizational / movement affiliation

○ Where are you based?

Round of introductions

Feminist Realities are...

Animation video

Introducing the Toolkit

Feminist Realities

Type in the chat:

● What words come to your mind when you think of feminist realities?

Brainstorming...

Feminist Realities Brainstorm

AccessPowerDiversity

Intersectionality Collective

Freedom Equality Hope

Accessibility, working with trans people is a must

Peaceful & equitable co-existence

Relentless Solidarity Collective work/ action

Feminist Realities Brainstorm

Challenging power and privilege

Free from violenceEqual voices

Diversity, agency and voice

Fair working grounds

Body ownership

Intergenerational work

Centering those most impacted

Identity, self-care and agency

Fearless voices

Lived realitiesHaving pockets for all dresses!

Resistance and resilience

Understanding Feminist Realities

■ Feminist Realities are not only possible but they exist now

■ Feminist realities are current, existing practices; ideas and ways of doing that people and groups are forging

■ They go beyond resisting oppressive systems & show us a world without domination, exploitation and supremacy looks like.

Feminist Realities are our power in action.

Understanding Feminist Realities

● Affirm

● Disrupt

● Mobilize

● Increase collective power

Feminist Realities...

They areour powerin action!

Using the Toolkit

● It’s important to be clear about who your audience is

● Identify how much time you’re allotted

● Are there any accessibility and safety needs that you to be aware of? Ask!

● Determine what length and scope of workshop options is most suitable. Be creative!

Audience

Using the Toolkit

● Territorial acknowledgement

○ Who are the caretakers of the land where you are now based?

● Introduction of self○ “What if the feminist world we all want to live in were

real and people who created it were living in it today?”

● Framing the issue○ What words come to your mind when you think

of feminist realities?

Who are we & why are we here?

Using the Toolkit

Invitation to co-create

Co-creating Feminist Realities includes:

● Creating space/s for feminist conversations to occur

● Imagining Feminist Realities together - creating feminist visions

● Creating and sharing stories of Feminist Realities in an explicitly feminist/collaborative way

● Creating change together

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the

master’s house”

- Audre Lorde -

14th AWID International

Forum

● The theme is...“Feminist Realities: our power in action”

● The AWID Forum will bring together over 2000 feminists & social justice activiststo discuss, strengthen and experience our Feminist Realities

● Call for Activities will be launched inNovember 2019

The 14th AWID International Forumwill take place in Bali, Indonesia

on October 14-17, 2020

14th AWID Forum - Call for Activities

● Explore interactive and creative activities that:

○ celebrate and share feminist realities that are truly propositional & powerful

○ infuse us all with hope and energy towards transformation!

Invitation to be bold, creative & innovative!

Think of activities that invite...

● Visioning

● Sharing of experiences

● Skills sharing

● Debates

● Dialogues at the Faultlines

● Firestarters

● Reflections on the unknown& collective learning

Moment of pause - questions in the chat

Next steps: Continue the Feminist Realities Journey...

● Look out for upcoming Forum Activities

● November 2019: ○ Facebook Live event for the

Call for Activities○ Call for Activities Launch &

Frequently Asked Questions

Feminist Realities Journey...

November 2019: Members’ Online film

screening& discussion --

"Naila and the Uprising" a powerful journey looking at women's organizing in

the first Intifada

Feminist Realities Journey...December 2019:

Interactive presentation onAutonomous Resourcing

and more…

Still have questions?

Feel free to reach out to us:

awid.org/contact-us