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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
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