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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 19d

Assata Shakur
1947-2025

A black and white photo of a woman gesturing captioned "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them./~Assata Shakur"

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025

Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 14d

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

Great opportunity: adding the link here to make it easier to access: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute

Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute

Fifth Annual Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute

gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this brilliant list made by @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social with Global South thinkers, researchers and activists.

South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · Nov 16

Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies.

Please help us build this list.

Suggestions very welcome.

go.bsky.app/xCeFhi

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

🌍 Research Collaboratory
Transnational action research connecting academics and social justice movements.
We co-create feminist methodologies and outcomes that imagine and build racially just worlds. Explore the projects we’ve supported so far: thefeministcentre.org/programmes/research-collaboratory

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

Movement Builders’ Schools
Five-day immersive spaces bringing together experienced activists to strengthen collective knowledge and advance movement strategy. Check out the past editions in Kenya and Mexico on our website: thefeministcentre.org/programmes/movement-building-schools/

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

🎓 Doctoral Fellowships
In partnership with Makerere University’s School of Women and Gender Studies, we support PhD research that builds the next generation of feminist scholars working on racial justice.

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 1d

💡 Innovation Incubator
Transnational interventions that shape narratives, transform power, and influence policy.
Includes our Activist-in-Residence fellowships, where activists co-develop action-oriented research with communities, scholars, and FCRJ.

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing the professorial inaugural lecture of Prof. Awino Okech, FCRJ's Director.

The lecture explores African feminist knowledge making for social transformation and the role of Prof Okech's scholarship and work.

🗓️23 October 2025 l 18h00
📍SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre
🎟️Link in bio.

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 6d

And it means creating a living archive of feminist and Indigenous methodologies that keep our imagination of justice alive. Global understanding through local wisdom: studying racism's complex systems while learning from feminist and indigenous movements' strategies for transformation.

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 6d

It means turning research into action: We take what feminist movements learn and study, and transform it into real strategies for racial justice on the ground.+

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 6d

It means bridging fields that often develop apart — feminist theories on power and change, diaspora studies, critical race theory, migration studies.+

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 6d

What does it mean to work at the intersection of feminism and racial justice? 💭

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 7d

💜Submit a Revolutionary Love Letter!

Write a love letter to a feminist who inspires you — share why you’re grateful and how their work moves you.

🌍 Any language | 📅 20 Oct 2025

Up to 30 letters may be featured in our online booklet.

👉🏿 Read the full call via the link in our bio before submitting

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 8d

When activists, artists, and scholars meet, new solidarities take shape. We create the spaces where these dialogues can begin - and strategies can grow across borders.

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 8d

Borders, prisons, and data systems often speak the same language of control. We study how gendered and racialised logics sustain them - and how movements resist. +

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 8d

Feminist racial justice is already being built in the majority world - through art, research, and organising. That’s where our work begins - testing, practising, and amplifying feminist experiments in justice. +

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 8d

Our work moves through three interlocking pathways - connecting research, organising, and practice.
Which one speaks to your work or activism? We’d love to hear from you. +

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 9d

Françoise Vergès on carceral feminism and the NGO-isation of justice work.

We discuss:
🚨 What we lose when movements are absorbed by institutions
📚 Disobedient archives & radical memory
🌱 Alternatives rooted in abolition & community-based organising
🎧 Listen here: lnkd.in/eMXgqkYT

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 12d

💭 What does a transnational feminist approach to racial justice mean to you?
How does it take shape in your movements and activism?

We want to hear from you - share your thoughts with us.

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 12d

It allows us to defy problematic scholarly and geographical binaries that have obscured the histories of #gender and #race struggles, and highlight the #transnational nature of political cultures, protest, and #solidarity. +

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 12d

We take a transnational feminist approach to racial justice to recentre the majority world as primary sites for reframing #narratives on racialised and intersectional gender justice, and place #Indigenous feminist methodologies at the centre of how we imagine #justice. +

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 12d

At the FCRJ, we move beyond national boundaries to build a repository of #feminist and #decolonial memory, strategy, and knowledge for #racialjustice. +

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 13d

By studying racism as a global problem and testing strategies created by feminist and Indigenous movements, we chart pathways to racial justice.
✨ Stay with us as we share knowledge, strategies, opportunities and stories that connect scholarship and activism.

Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 13d

Our work brings together fields that have often developed apart — from feminist theories on power and protest, to diaspora and migration studies, to critical race theories.
We follow a research → test → reflect cycle, connecting scholarship with movement building. +

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