Feminist Centre for Racial Justice
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Research in service of movement building. We connect feminist thought, organising, and racial justice strategies.
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📢 New series: 10 Questions With…
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
January 30, 2026 at 11:43 AM
📢 New series: 10 Questions With…
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
Feminist futures don’t begin anew.
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Feminist futures don’t begin anew.
Care is not peripheral to organising.
January 26, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Care is not peripheral to organising.
How knowledge is made matters.
Hear from FMBS Participants on how ethics, care, and accountability determine whether research strengthens movements.
Hear from FMBS Participants on how ethics, care, and accountability determine whether research strengthens movements.
January 21, 2026 at 10:41 AM
How knowledge is made matters.
Hear from FMBS Participants on how ethics, care, and accountability determine whether research strengthens movements.
Hear from FMBS Participants on how ethics, care, and accountability determine whether research strengthens movements.
Stories don’t just describe reality.
They organise belief, belonging, and exclusion.
They organise belief, belonging, and exclusion.
January 19, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Stories don’t just describe reality.
They organise belief, belonging, and exclusion.
They organise belief, belonging, and exclusion.
Movements are sites of knowledge production.
They generate knowledge through practice, reflection, and struggle.
They generate knowledge through practice, reflection, and struggle.
January 15, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Movements are sites of knowledge production.
They generate knowledge through practice, reflection, and struggle.
They generate knowledge through practice, reflection, and struggle.
We love feminist popular education because learning happens with the heart, mind, and body.
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
We love feminist popular education because learning happens with the heart, mind, and body.
🎙 NEW: Our Spotlight Series finale is here!
Awino Okech + Shereen Essof sit down to reflect on 3 years of co-creating the Feminist Movement Builders Schools.
They talk about:
— partnership as political practice
— what the schools taught us about movements now
— joy and building feminist power
Awino Okech + Shereen Essof sit down to reflect on 3 years of co-creating the Feminist Movement Builders Schools.
They talk about:
— partnership as political practice
— what the schools taught us about movements now
— joy and building feminist power
January 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
🎙 NEW: Our Spotlight Series finale is here!
Awino Okech + Shereen Essof sit down to reflect on 3 years of co-creating the Feminist Movement Builders Schools.
They talk about:
— partnership as political practice
— what the schools taught us about movements now
— joy and building feminist power
Awino Okech + Shereen Essof sit down to reflect on 3 years of co-creating the Feminist Movement Builders Schools.
They talk about:
— partnership as political practice
— what the schools taught us about movements now
— joy and building feminist power
Module 2 of the FCRJ × JASS Feminist Movement Builders School's webpage is live ✊🏿
Centring feminist knowledge as movement strategy and sharing action research from movement builders in Kenya.
Centring feminist knowledge as movement strategy and sharing action research from movement builders in Kenya.
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Module 2 of the FCRJ × JASS Feminist Movement Builders School's webpage is live ✊🏿
Centring feminist knowledge as movement strategy and sharing action research from movement builders in Kenya.
Centring feminist knowledge as movement strategy and sharing action research from movement builders in Kenya.
Hello 2026.
Here’s what to expect from the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice this year: ✨ A new podcast series: 10 Questions with feminist academics
✨ Revolutionary Love Letters - a celebration of feminists
What are you most excited for?
🟣💬 Tell us below.
Here’s what to expect from the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice this year: ✨ A new podcast series: 10 Questions with feminist academics
✨ Revolutionary Love Letters - a celebration of feminists
What are you most excited for?
🟣💬 Tell us below.
January 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Hello 2026.
Here’s what to expect from the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice this year: ✨ A new podcast series: 10 Questions with feminist academics
✨ Revolutionary Love Letters - a celebration of feminists
What are you most excited for?
🟣💬 Tell us below.
Here’s what to expect from the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice this year: ✨ A new podcast series: 10 Questions with feminist academics
✨ Revolutionary Love Letters - a celebration of feminists
What are you most excited for?
🟣💬 Tell us below.
We are taking a break until 5th January 2026. We leave you with a snapshot of our work in 2025. We wish all of you a restorative break and trust that the social justice labour over the last five decades will fortify us for the challenges ahead in 2026.
December 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We are taking a break until 5th January 2026. We leave you with a snapshot of our work in 2025. We wish all of you a restorative break and trust that the social justice labour over the last five decades will fortify us for the challenges ahead in 2026.
🎙 New episode of Runway to Feminist Justice!
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🎙 New episode of Runway to Feminist Justice!
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
Meet Agness Nataba, FCRJ PhD Fellow at Makerere University.
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Meet Agness Nataba, FCRJ PhD Fellow at Makerere University.
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
FCRJ Director Awino Okech discusses femicide in Kenya
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December 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
FCRJ Director Awino Okech discusses femicide in Kenya
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Meet Anne Stella Mulama, PhD Fellow funded by the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice at Makerere University. Her research traces Kenyan women domestic workers’ migration journeys to the Arab Gulf #WomenInMigration #CareWork
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Meet Anne Stella Mulama, PhD Fellow funded by the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice at Makerere University. Her research traces Kenyan women domestic workers’ migration journeys to the Arab Gulf #WomenInMigration #CareWork
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
We’re proud to spotlight Hannah Atinuke Oluwafunmilayo Adereti,, FCRJ-funded PhD fellow whose degree will be awarded by SOAS University of London.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We’re proud to spotlight Hannah Atinuke Oluwafunmilayo Adereti,, FCRJ-funded PhD fellow whose degree will be awarded by SOAS University of London.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
🎙 New Episode — Runway to Feminist Justice
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🎙 New Episode — Runway to Feminist Justice
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
Nomancotsho Pakade whose degree will be awarded by the University of Pretoria and received a doctoral completion grant from FCRJ.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Nomancotsho Pakade whose degree will be awarded by the University of Pretoria and received a doctoral completion grant from FCRJ.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
Building the next generation of feminist scholars.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Building the next generation of feminist scholars.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
Thank you for listening, sharing, and growing this community with us 🚀💜
We’re excited to bring you:
• New series with academics on why their work matters beyond the academy
• A renewed dive into our Leadership & Legacy series
• More voices, more perspectives, and more pathways to feminist justice
We’re excited to bring you:
• New series with academics on why their work matters beyond the academy
• A renewed dive into our Leadership & Legacy series
• More voices, more perspectives, and more pathways to feminist justice
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Thank you for listening, sharing, and growing this community with us 🚀💜
We’re excited to bring you:
• New series with academics on why their work matters beyond the academy
• A renewed dive into our Leadership & Legacy series
• More voices, more perspectives, and more pathways to feminist justice
We’re excited to bring you:
• New series with academics on why their work matters beyond the academy
• A renewed dive into our Leadership & Legacy series
• More voices, more perspectives, and more pathways to feminist justice
📢 New episode of Runway to Feminist Justice now live!
Nadia Asri speaks with Samrawit Assefa about feminist responses to sexual violence, genocide, and trauma in humanitarian settings — and what resistance looks like through care and collective power.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
Nadia Asri speaks with Samrawit Assefa about feminist responses to sexual violence, genocide, and trauma in humanitarian settings — and what resistance looks like through care and collective power.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢 New episode of Runway to Feminist Justice now live!
Nadia Asri speaks with Samrawit Assefa about feminist responses to sexual violence, genocide, and trauma in humanitarian settings — and what resistance looks like through care and collective power.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
Nadia Asri speaks with Samrawit Assefa about feminist responses to sexual violence, genocide, and trauma in humanitarian settings — and what resistance looks like through care and collective power.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
✨What do feminist theories and movements show us about transformative change?
✨How do we prepare for just and equitable power to curtail the inevitable usurpation of people’s power?
✨How do we ideologically and intellectually prepare the next generation of feminist intellectuals and activists?
✨How do we prepare for just and equitable power to curtail the inevitable usurpation of people’s power?
✨How do we ideologically and intellectually prepare the next generation of feminist intellectuals and activists?
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
✨What do feminist theories and movements show us about transformative change?
✨How do we prepare for just and equitable power to curtail the inevitable usurpation of people’s power?
✨How do we ideologically and intellectually prepare the next generation of feminist intellectuals and activists?
✨How do we prepare for just and equitable power to curtail the inevitable usurpation of people’s power?
✨How do we ideologically and intellectually prepare the next generation of feminist intellectuals and activists?
We’re thrilled to welcome Nina Chizungu, Programme Director & Gender Expert at Sote Pamoja RDC, as one of our new Activists-in-Residence.
Her project celebrates women activists in the DRC, Rwanda & Burundi who’ve turned survival into leadership—rebuilding peace and shaping feminist governance.
Her project celebrates women activists in the DRC, Rwanda & Burundi who’ve turned survival into leadership—rebuilding peace and shaping feminist governance.
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We’re thrilled to welcome Nina Chizungu, Programme Director & Gender Expert at Sote Pamoja RDC, as one of our new Activists-in-Residence.
Her project celebrates women activists in the DRC, Rwanda & Burundi who’ve turned survival into leadership—rebuilding peace and shaping feminist governance.
Her project celebrates women activists in the DRC, Rwanda & Burundi who’ve turned survival into leadership—rebuilding peace and shaping feminist governance.
We’re proud to welcome Tamara Isaac, Haitian lawyer, language-justice practitioner, and poet, as one of our new Activists-in-Residence.
Tamara's project, Language Justice Across South-South Migration, tackles the systemic barriers Black immigrants face in Brazil and across Latin America.
Tamara's project, Language Justice Across South-South Migration, tackles the systemic barriers Black immigrants face in Brazil and across Latin America.
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We’re proud to welcome Tamara Isaac, Haitian lawyer, language-justice practitioner, and poet, as one of our new Activists-in-Residence.
Tamara's project, Language Justice Across South-South Migration, tackles the systemic barriers Black immigrants face in Brazil and across Latin America.
Tamara's project, Language Justice Across South-South Migration, tackles the systemic barriers Black immigrants face in Brazil and across Latin America.
✨ Where activism meets research.
We’re excited to introduce our 2025/26 Activists-in-Residence.
The programme connects activists, researchers, and students to co-create feminist approaches to racial justice. ✊🏽
We’re excited to introduce our 2025/26 Activists-in-Residence.
The programme connects activists, researchers, and students to co-create feminist approaches to racial justice. ✊🏽
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
✨ Where activism meets research.
We’re excited to introduce our 2025/26 Activists-in-Residence.
The programme connects activists, researchers, and students to co-create feminist approaches to racial justice. ✊🏽
We’re excited to introduce our 2025/26 Activists-in-Residence.
The programme connects activists, researchers, and students to co-create feminist approaches to racial justice. ✊🏽