Event overview
Building Solidarity, Creating Social Change: Muslim Women’s Activism in their Own Words
While there is a lot of talk about the relationship between Islam, “Muslim culture(s)” and women’s rights, it is often striking how few of the people speaking are in fact Muslim women themselves. Instead the symbol of the “oppressed Muslim woman” is invoked by a wide array of actors often to justify conservative and decidedly anti-feminist agendas.
In such a politicised and over-determined space how do Muslim women themselves identify, respond to and organise around issues of inequality, discrimination or violence? How do they build connections within and across their various communities? What strategies do they employ to tackle the intersecting forms of marginalisation they often experience? What resources and allies do they draw on? What obstacles and challenges do they face?
There is no one-set of answers to these questions nor one “Muslim woman’s perspective”. With this in mind, this event aims to create a space within which a range of women working on Muslim women’s rights can discuss issues of solidarity, faith and resistance, identity and representation in relation to their work. In the process it is hoped some useful lessons might be learnt for how we all might engage better in intersectional feminist praxis and scholarship.
Confirmed Speakers: Hasanah Cegu Isadeen, Fauzia Ahmad and Erum Dahar
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Mar 2019 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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