ThinkFest Conversations 9: Finding New Feminist Activism in times of Pandemic and Protests

An informative and engaging session on how feminism is changing around the world, with a focus on the effect of the current pandemic on feminist discourse and practice. Four leading feminist academics and activists discuss these issues from their perspective.

Afiya Shehrbano Zia is a feminist scholar, activist and Author of Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy? (SAP, UK, 2018). She is based in Karachi, Pakistan.

Shahrzad Mojab is scholar, teacher and activist. She is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women’s learning and education; gender, state, migration and diaspora; Marxist feminism and anti-racism pedagogy. She is professor of Adult Education and Community Development and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the Director of Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity, a former Director of the Women and Gender Institute, University of Toronto and the recipient of the 2020 Canadian Association of Studies in Adult Education Lifetime Achievement Award and the Royal Society of Canada Award in Gender Studies in 2010.

Zillah Eisenstein is one of the foremost political theorists and activists of our time. She has written feminist theory in North America for the past thirty-five years. Her writing is an integral part of her political activism. She writes in order to share and learn with, and from, others engaged in political struggles for social justice.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is an activist-scholar whose work focuses on transnational feminist theory, anti-capitalist feminist praxis, anti-racism education, and the politics if knowledge. She is the co-creator of feminist video archive (Feminist Freedom Warrior) and teaches at Syracuse University, USA.

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