"I was committed, both politically and personally, to building a noncolonizing feminist solidarity across borders. I believed in a larger feminist project than the colonizing, self-interested one I saw emerging in much influential feminist scholarship and in the mainstream women’s movement. "
-Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anti-Capitalist Struggles"
-Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anti-Capitalist Struggles"
The purpose of this website is to interrogate the notion of solidarity though examination of narratives of activism in two specific locations: Egypt and India. How are these groups working to advance feminist solidarity? What is problematic about the work that each group is doing? What are the implications of the work that is being forwarded?
We chose to focus on The Women and Memory Forum in Egypt and The Sangtin Writers in India. Though the groups are in different parts of the world, they are acting in solidarity through promoting writing that privileges voices that are often coopted by others, or explicitly silenced by others. As educators and learners, we use their activism to anchor our own explorations of what it means to be acting in solidarity.
We chose to focus on The Women and Memory Forum in Egypt and The Sangtin Writers in India. Though the groups are in different parts of the world, they are acting in solidarity through promoting writing that privileges voices that are often coopted by others, or explicitly silenced by others. As educators and learners, we use their activism to anchor our own explorations of what it means to be acting in solidarity.