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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We are taking a break until 5th January 2026. We leave you with a snapshot of our work in 2025. We wish all of you a restorative break and trust that the social justice labour over the last five decades will fortify us for the challenges ahead in 2026.
December 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We are taking a break until 5th January 2026. We leave you with a snapshot of our work in 2025. We wish all of you a restorative break and trust that the social justice labour over the last five decades will fortify us for the challenges ahead in 2026.
🎙 New episode of Runway to Feminist Justice!
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🎙 New episode of Runway to Feminist Justice!
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
We spoke with Zimbabwean feminist organiser Larisa W. Chikanya on political education & how young feminists + queer communities are reshaping leadership.
👉🏿Listen via link in bio.
💬 What strategies are helping you stay grounded in organising right now?
Meet Agness Nataba, FCRJ PhD Fellow at Makerere University.
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Meet Agness Nataba, FCRJ PhD Fellow at Makerere University.
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
Her PhD examines the gendered legacy of British colonialism in the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom through land dispossession, forced labour & the loss of cultural authority.
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio"
Meet Anne Stella Mulama, PhD Fellow funded by the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice at Makerere University. Her research traces Kenyan women domestic workers’ migration journeys to the Arab Gulf #WomenInMigration #CareWork
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Meet Anne Stella Mulama, PhD Fellow funded by the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice at Makerere University. Her research traces Kenyan women domestic workers’ migration journeys to the Arab Gulf #WomenInMigration #CareWork
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
“House Ballroom and Vogue culture isn’t just performance — it’s a blueprint for oppressed people to build kinship, affirm identities and imagine new futures across geographies.” — H. Adereti
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“House Ballroom and Vogue culture isn’t just performance — it’s a blueprint for oppressed people to build kinship, affirm identities and imagine new futures across geographies.” — H. Adereti
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more about our PhD Fellowship programme via the link in our bio
We’re proud to spotlight Hannah Atinuke Oluwafunmilayo Adereti,, FCRJ-funded PhD fellow whose degree will be awarded by SOAS University of London.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We’re proud to spotlight Hannah Atinuke Oluwafunmilayo Adereti,, FCRJ-funded PhD fellow whose degree will be awarded by SOAS University of London.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
Their project, Freedom Moves, traces how ballroom and vogue travel from New York through the Caribbean, West Africa & the UK.
🎙 New Episode — Runway to Feminist Justice
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🎙 New Episode — Runway to Feminist Justice
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
We speak with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist whose community mural — created through the Feminist Movement Builders School with Just Associates JASS — serves as a living record of queer experiences in rural Uganda.
🎧 Listen via link in bio.
“I study what ‘freedom’ looks and feels like in Black women’s lives after 1994...freedom is not just about rights on paper, but about whether our bodies, relationships and everyday realities are actually safe, valued and supported.” — Nomancotsho Pakade
👉🏿Find out more via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more via the link in our bio
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“I study what ‘freedom’ looks and feels like in Black women’s lives after 1994...freedom is not just about rights on paper, but about whether our bodies, relationships and everyday realities are actually safe, valued and supported.” — Nomancotsho Pakade
👉🏿Find out more via the link in our bio
👉🏿Find out more via the link in our bio
Nomancotsho Pakade whose degree will be awarded by the University of Pretoria and received a doctoral completion grant from FCRJ.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Nomancotsho Pakade whose degree will be awarded by the University of Pretoria and received a doctoral completion grant from FCRJ.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
Her project explores what freedom means for Black women in post-1994 South Africa, reading the 1954 & 1994 Women’s Charters alongside the stories of Black women.
Through our fellowship programme, we nurture critical, transnational feminist research that connects knowledge to action and strengthens movements for justice.
Are you interested in becoming one of our next doctoral fellows? Let us know in the comments.
Are you interested in becoming one of our next doctoral fellows? Let us know in the comments.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Through our fellowship programme, we nurture critical, transnational feminist research that connects knowledge to action and strengthens movements for justice.
Are you interested in becoming one of our next doctoral fellows? Let us know in the comments.
Are you interested in becoming one of our next doctoral fellows? Let us know in the comments.
H. Adereti explores how voguing, house, and ballroom culture function as dynamic sites of queer survival, organising, and cultural resistance.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
H. Adereti explores how voguing, house, and ballroom culture function as dynamic sites of queer survival, organising, and cultural resistance.
Nomancotsho Pakade examines how Black women in South Africa define and experience freedom by revisiting the country’s two Women’s Charters of 1954 and 1994.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nomancotsho Pakade examines how Black women in South Africa define and experience freedom by revisiting the country’s two Women’s Charters of 1954 and 1994.
Anne Stella Mulama studies the complex journey of Kenyan domestic workers returning from Gulf countries, investigating how community dynamics shape their reintegration and collective resilience.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Anne Stella Mulama studies the complex journey of Kenyan domestic workers returning from Gulf countries, investigating how community dynamics shape their reintegration and collective resilience.
Agness Nataba examines the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom case on reparative justice against the British, exploring the specificity of Banyoro women’s experiences.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Agness Nataba examines the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom case on reparative justice against the British, exploring the specificity of Banyoro women’s experiences.
Building the next generation of feminist scholars.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Building the next generation of feminist scholars.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
At FCRJ, our Doctoral Fellowship Programme supports emerging researchers whose work bridges academic inquiry and movement building, advancing feminist, decolonial, and transnational understandings of racial justice.
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?
“I use feminist research and storytelling to make visible the everyday activism of women in the Great Lakes region — women who rebuild communities, challenge exclusion, and lead with courage in the face of systemic injustice.” — Nina Chizungu
👉🏿Learn more via the link in our bio.
👉🏿Learn more via the link in our bio.
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“I use feminist research and storytelling to make visible the everyday activism of women in the Great Lakes region — women who rebuild communities, challenge exclusion, and lead with courage in the face of systemic injustice.” — Nina Chizungu
👉🏿Learn more via the link in our bio.
👉🏿Learn more via the link in our bio.
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.
“I am not a scholar – I am an immigrant, a practitioner, and an advocate who has lived the barriers I now work to dismantle.” — Tamara Isaac 💜
Tamara's work builds multilingual, trauma-informed tools that help communities advocate for dignity, justice, and inclusion.
👉🏿Learn more via link in bio.
Tamara's work builds multilingual, trauma-informed tools that help communities advocate for dignity, justice, and inclusion.
👉🏿Learn more via link in bio.
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“I am not a scholar – I am an immigrant, a practitioner, and an advocate who has lived the barriers I now work to dismantle.” — Tamara Isaac 💜
Tamara's work builds multilingual, trauma-informed tools that help communities advocate for dignity, justice, and inclusion.
👉🏿Learn more via link in bio.
Tamara's work builds multilingual, trauma-informed tools that help communities advocate for dignity, justice, and inclusion.
👉🏿Learn more via link in bio.
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.
The AiR programme is about mutual learning.
Residency holders use feminist and community-based methods to build tools, stories, and strategies that challenge racism and racialisation.
👉🏾Learn more via the link in our bio.
Residency holders use feminist and community-based methods to build tools, stories, and strategies that challenge racism and racialisation.
👉🏾Learn more via the link in our bio.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The AiR programme is about mutual learning.
Residency holders use feminist and community-based methods to build tools, stories, and strategies that challenge racism and racialisation.
👉🏾Learn more via the link in our bio.
Residency holders use feminist and community-based methods to build tools, stories, and strategies that challenge racism and racialisation.
👉🏾Learn more via the link in our bio.
✨ 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. ✊🏽
“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.