Feminist Organising in the Face of Failure and Backlash

Abstract

This panel explores how feminist activists have responded to failure and built resilience in the face of backlash. The papers address different challenges facing feminist activists, from the refusal to acknowledge and address sexual violence within social movements to exhaustion and burnout that stems from fighting entrenched structures of patriarchal violence. At the same time, they reveal innovative strategies of cultivating hope in the face of failure, from politicized forms of healing and care to everyday practices of survival.

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From radical self-care to radical self-knowledge – towards embodied, trauma-informed activism	View Paper Details
Failure in Transformation or Transformation through Failure? The Handling of Sexualised Violence within Social Movements	View Paper Details
Justice and Care: Self-Narratives of Reproductive Trauma in the Age of Reproductive Repeal	View Paper Details
Everyday feminism in the semiperiphery: minor practices of survival in contemporary Poland	View Paper Details
Failure or Flourishing? A Long Durée Perspective on the Gendered Politics of Belonging and the Dynamics of a Feminist Movement	View Paper Details