Feminist Centre for Racial Justice
@fcrj.bsky.social
Research in service of movement building. We connect feminist thought, organising, and racial justice strategies.
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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. ✊🏽
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Coming Apr '25 from @cassavarepublic.bsky.social
"[A] deeply moving collection of first-hand narratives from a diverse range of people, living through the harrowing, ongoing Boko Haram conflict. [This] collection provides a profound insight into the realities faced by those caught in the turmoil."
"[A] deeply moving collection of first-hand narratives from a diverse range of people, living through the harrowing, ongoing Boko Haram conflict. [This] collection provides a profound insight into the realities faced by those caught in the turmoil."
March 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Coming Apr '25 from @cassavarepublic.bsky.social
"[A] deeply moving collection of first-hand narratives from a diverse range of people, living through the harrowing, ongoing Boko Haram conflict. [This] collection provides a profound insight into the realities faced by those caught in the turmoil."
"[A] deeply moving collection of first-hand narratives from a diverse range of people, living through the harrowing, ongoing Boko Haram conflict. [This] collection provides a profound insight into the realities faced by those caught in the turmoil."
“Feminist worldmaking is how we build the worlds we need - through knowledge, community, and resistance.”
As researchers, our role is to produce knowledge that strengthens movement building and organising for a better world. Grateful to all who joined Dr. Awino Okech’s Inaugural Lecture.
As researchers, our role is to produce knowledge that strengthens movement building and organising for a better world. Grateful to all who joined Dr. Awino Okech’s Inaugural Lecture.
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Feminist worldmaking is how we build the worlds we need - through knowledge, community, and resistance.”
As researchers, our role is to produce knowledge that strengthens movement building and organising for a better world. Grateful to all who joined Dr. Awino Okech’s Inaugural Lecture.
As researchers, our role is to produce knowledge that strengthens movement building and organising for a better world. Grateful to all who joined Dr. Awino Okech’s Inaugural Lecture.
What happens when we bring together academics and movements to carry out action-oriented research across borders? 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What happens when we bring together academics and movements to carry out action-oriented research across borders? 🧵
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I watched The Perfect Neighbor and I could not stop thinking about Ajike Owens’ children and the world they should have inherited instead of the one they got. I wrote about the white supremacist paranoia that robs Black children of their joy for my comrades at @theflytrapmedia.com
No Perfect Neighbors in White Supremacy
A new film that subverts the gaze of the surveillance state asks how we can build a better world for all children.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I watched The Perfect Neighbor and I could not stop thinking about Ajike Owens’ children and the world they should have inherited instead of the one they got. I wrote about the white supremacist paranoia that robs Black children of their joy for my comrades at @theflytrapmedia.com
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The latest issue of, "Transforming Anthropology" is available now! www.transforminganthropology.org/current-issue
June 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The latest issue of, "Transforming Anthropology" is available now! www.transforminganthropology.org/current-issue
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The paperback for my debut book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US will be out in a few months, nearly two years after its release. I'm so grateful folks have been supporting it even as I'm here recovering from heart surgery. Updates on the way. Stay tuned 💜
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...
Black Women Taught Us by Jenn M. Jackson: 9780593243336 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The paperback for my debut book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US will be out in a few months, nearly two years after its release. I'm so grateful folks have been supporting it even as I'm here recovering from heart surgery. Updates on the way. Stay tuned 💜
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883...
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Today we launch the ground-breaking report Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples: at the edge of survival.
Check it out now 👉 uncontactedpeoples.org
Check it out now 👉 uncontactedpeoples.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today we launch the ground-breaking report Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples: at the edge of survival.
Check it out now 👉 uncontactedpeoples.org
Check it out now 👉 uncontactedpeoples.org
🎙 Legacy Series Finale Out Now!
What does it mean to imagine freedom beyond borders?
In our final legacy series episodes with Françoise Vergès, we look forward to explore radical acts of imagination.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
What does it mean to imagine freedom beyond borders?
In our final legacy series episodes with Françoise Vergès, we look forward to explore radical acts of imagination.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
October 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🎙 Legacy Series Finale Out Now!
What does it mean to imagine freedom beyond borders?
In our final legacy series episodes with Françoise Vergès, we look forward to explore radical acts of imagination.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
What does it mean to imagine freedom beyond borders?
In our final legacy series episodes with Françoise Vergès, we look forward to explore radical acts of imagination.
🎧 Listen via the link in our bio.
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She presented at the confenece I spoke at days ago.
During her talk, I was in the audience, listening and taking notes when I heard my name and saw my book Akata Witch in her PowerPoint. Lol, I wanted to melt into my chair, 😆. brittlepaper.com/2025/10/how-...
During her talk, I was in the audience, listening and taking notes when I heard my name and saw my book Akata Witch in her PowerPoint. Lol, I wanted to melt into my chair, 😆. brittlepaper.com/2025/10/how-...
How Nigerian Women Artists Turn Not Belonging Into Art — A Review of Bimbola Akinbola’s Transatlantic Disbelonging
Bimbola Akinbola’s Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art begins with a feeling many of us know too well — the ache of not quite belonging anywher...
brittlepaper.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
She presented at the confenece I spoke at days ago.
During her talk, I was in the audience, listening and taking notes when I heard my name and saw my book Akata Witch in her PowerPoint. Lol, I wanted to melt into my chair, 😆. brittlepaper.com/2025/10/how-...
During her talk, I was in the audience, listening and taking notes when I heard my name and saw my book Akata Witch in her PowerPoint. Lol, I wanted to melt into my chair, 😆. brittlepaper.com/2025/10/how-...
When Miriam Makeba asked Thandiswa Mazwai what kind of artist she wanted to be, her response became a lesson in politics, community, and purpose: art as a practice for liberation.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation on our podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5iC2VOwF7dV5RZNgklneMm
🎧 Listen to the full conversation on our podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5iC2VOwF7dV5RZNgklneMm
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
When Miriam Makeba asked Thandiswa Mazwai what kind of artist she wanted to be, her response became a lesson in politics, community, and purpose: art as a practice for liberation.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation on our podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5iC2VOwF7dV5RZNgklneMm
🎧 Listen to the full conversation on our podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5iC2VOwF7dV5RZNgklneMm
#PODCAST
🎙️ Our Legacy Series honors the voices of senior feminists who paved the way for today’s movements.
Long-form conversations full of experience and wisdom.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/2V2rt7fV5Gn257B2HpA0zH
Keep their memory alive.
🎙️ Our Legacy Series honors the voices of senior feminists who paved the way for today’s movements.
Long-form conversations full of experience and wisdom.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/2V2rt7fV5Gn257B2HpA0zH
Keep their memory alive.
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#PODCAST
🎙️ Our Legacy Series honors the voices of senior feminists who paved the way for today’s movements.
Long-form conversations full of experience and wisdom.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/2V2rt7fV5Gn257B2HpA0zH
Keep their memory alive.
🎙️ Our Legacy Series honors the voices of senior feminists who paved the way for today’s movements.
Long-form conversations full of experience and wisdom.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/2V2rt7fV5Gn257B2HpA0zH
Keep their memory alive.
💜Thank you to everyone who sent a Revolutionary Love Letter.
We’ll contact selected contributors by 7th November 2025.
All submissions are received with gratitude and care.
We’ll contact selected contributors by 7th November 2025.
All submissions are received with gratitude and care.
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
💜Thank you to everyone who sent a Revolutionary Love Letter.
We’ll contact selected contributors by 7th November 2025.
All submissions are received with gratitude and care.
We’ll contact selected contributors by 7th November 2025.
All submissions are received with gratitude and care.
If our problems are global, then our solutions must be too.
the challenges we face today aren’t confined to the nation-state. What happens in Kenya shapes Uganda and Tanzania.
What happens in the US ripples through Europe and Latin America. Keep building transnational power and organising.
the challenges we face today aren’t confined to the nation-state. What happens in Kenya shapes Uganda and Tanzania.
What happens in the US ripples through Europe and Latin America. Keep building transnational power and organising.
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If our problems are global, then our solutions must be too.
the challenges we face today aren’t confined to the nation-state. What happens in Kenya shapes Uganda and Tanzania.
What happens in the US ripples through Europe and Latin America. Keep building transnational power and organising.
the challenges we face today aren’t confined to the nation-state. What happens in Kenya shapes Uganda and Tanzania.
What happens in the US ripples through Europe and Latin America. Keep building transnational power and organising.
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We’re launching a Kickstarter for our Africanfuturist animated film!
In November, you can help bring Crocodile Dance to life.
We’re offering an art book and other fabulous rewards for your support.
Sign Up to Get Notified! #crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
In November, you can help bring Crocodile Dance to life.
We’re offering an art book and other fabulous rewards for your support.
Sign Up to Get Notified! #crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
Coming soon: Crocodile Dance - An Indie Africanfuturist Animated Film
An animated thriller where a musical storyteller reclaims her voice to face the Mami Wata, a monster goddess threatening her family.
www.kickstarter.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We’re launching a Kickstarter for our Africanfuturist animated film!
In November, you can help bring Crocodile Dance to life.
We’re offering an art book and other fabulous rewards for your support.
Sign Up to Get Notified! #crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
In November, you can help bring Crocodile Dance to life.
We’re offering an art book and other fabulous rewards for your support.
Sign Up to Get Notified! #crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
important read! for those interested, our project Empowering Voices also explores African women’s migration to Jordan & Lebanon → thefeministcentre.org/programmes/research-collaboratory/empowering-voices-unraveling-the-journey-of-african-migrant-domestic-workers-to-the-arab-world
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
important read! for those interested, our project Empowering Voices also explores African women’s migration to Jordan & Lebanon → thefeministcentre.org/programmes/research-collaboratory/empowering-voices-unraveling-the-journey-of-african-migrant-domestic-workers-to-the-arab-world
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📣 Submit your abstract for the British Journal of Sociology Conference by Monday 20 October.
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📣 Submit your abstract for the British Journal of Sociology Conference by Monday 20 October.
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
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🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
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My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome!
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
Invitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and Empire
For some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research…
folukeafrica.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome!
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
Last chance to submit!
💌 Call for Submissions: Revolutionary Love Letters
We’re collecting letters to feminists who have shaped our struggles and inspired our dreams.
A collective act of love, celebration, and resistance.
↳ Submit yours: thefeministcentre.org/announcements
[click on calls for submissions]
We’re collecting letters to feminists who have shaped our struggles and inspired our dreams.
A collective act of love, celebration, and resistance.
↳ Submit yours: thefeministcentre.org/announcements
[click on calls for submissions]
October 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Last chance to submit!