Ni Una Menos and the International Feminist Strike

CECILIA PALMEIRO

Berkeley

Taller; Radicalizing Feminisms/Practice as Theory: A Workshop with Marta Dillon, Zeynep Gambetti, Cecilia Palmeiro and Özlem Yasak; 2018

International Consortium of Critical Theory, UC Berkeley

This event brings together key players in the current and renewed wave of feminism in the Global South. Each of the participants will give a ten-minute presentation touching upon what they see as the most urgent matters at hand, followed by a discussion of political strategies in their respective geographies. By connecting recent Argentine and Turkish/Kurdish practices of grassroots organizing and resistance, as well as debates and theorizations relating to gender, citizenship, and violence, the activist-scholars will weave together emerging alternatives that push back against neoliberalism´s stealthy offensive. They will discuss the ways in which the movements to which they belong work to defend increasingly precarious female bodies and lives without recourse to neoliberal discourses on ´security.´ The initial presentations will be followed by a second round of conversations on topics that are of global concern to the new wave of feminism: state repression, machismo, nationalism, fascism, self-defense, and internationalism. Radicalizing Feminisms is both about radicalizing feminist discourse from within and from without its traditional sites of formulation (usually Western and middle-class milieus), and about bringing forward concrete experiences of collective struggles that can inspire and guide us.