Regional Feminist Movement Builders’ School 2024 FOR Eastern and Southern Africa. Apply below.
31st May 2024 at 00.00 BST
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The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice and Just Associates (JASS) are excited to host a second feminist movement builders’ school with activists and organisers from Eastern and Southern Africa. This school follows a successful pilot school held in Mexico City in August 2023.
The movement builders’ school is a five-day intensive learning space that offers a mix of practical tools and theory intended to
support strategising by developing a deeper understanding of structural exclusions underpinned by African feminist analysis.
This is a two-part school for experienced activists who want space to reflect and deepen their knowledge to inform organising strategy. Applicants will be required to commit to attending the first school in August 2024 and returning a year later for the second part in August 2025.
Fellowship
The school will be fully funded for 20 participants from Eastern and Southern Africa. The school will be conducted in English.
We are seeking applicants who are:
Africans based and working in Eastern and Southern Africa A leader in the community
Embedded in women’s rights and/or feminist, queer movements
With at least ten years of actively working as an organiser with/and supporting feminist and/or queer movements
Want to think strategically about making change happen
Committed to participating in a follow up school in August 2025
Have a demonstrable plan for building lessons from the school into your ongoing movement work
Kenya
20
Build a shared understanding of the transformative power of movements
Develop applied knowledge on the importance of transnational solidarity for social change
Expand access to tools, concepts, and research approaches to support your work
26th-31sAugust 2024
The school will run from 26th August – 31st August 2024.
Participants are expected to arrive on 24th August and depart on 1st September 2024.
Complete the application form by 31st May 2024 00.00 BST (https://forms.gle/F4H3neS5Azg6CdvG7)
Email your CV and a commitment letter to attending both schools and engagement in processes in between to
feministmovementbuilders@outlook.com.
Only successful applicants will be contacted by 15th June 2024.
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