"In many conventional feminist discourses, there has been an implicit progressivist measure used to map women’s status, with Anglo-American sites occupying self- congratulatory vanguard positions and other parts of the world representing backward and outdated modes of gender relations."
--Ashwini Tambe, "Transnational Feminist Studies: A Brief Sketch"
--Ashwini Tambe, "Transnational Feminist Studies: A Brief Sketch"
While both the Sangtin Writers and the Women and Memory Forum are utilizing activism and indigenous epistemologies to advocate for equality, they are still operating within Western discourses. Click below to see some ways in which both groups' "solidarity" might need to be followed by a question mark, rather than by an exclamation point.