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It’s our 2nd edition of Reflections for the year (and do make sure you’re watching this space for when we dive deeper into the edition with Postscript, a series of conversations with Reflections contributors).
In this edition, RESURJ members and Secretariat members from Brazil, Mexico, Mozambique, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Zambia explore politics of pride, faultlines of feminist approaches to accountability, and more!
A quick overview below.
- “Accountability has reached buzzword status in social movements but it’s time to ask ourselves and each other if we are indeed just replicating in the name of accountability, the same systems of oppression we profess to challenge and end through our organizing”, writes RESURJ member and Executive Coordinator Sachini Perera from Sri Lanka in the Editorial.
- “The fact that in a context as limiting and as hostile, sexual and gender minorities still find ways of organizing pride activities in safe and secure places, albeit post the actual pride month, is pride!”, reflects RESURJ member Sibusiso Malunga from Zambia in “Pride Politics — Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t”.
- “There is no credential vending to belong to social movements, we are activists not for our ideals, or for our words, but for our coherent actions”. RESURJ member Oriana López Uribe from Mexico asks “Questions about protests, safety and feminist accountability”.
- RESURJ consultant Bruna David reflects on the politics of pride, capitalism and consumerism in a contribution entitled “Mês do orgulho: o Capital do arco-íris | Pride Month: The Capital of the Rainbow”.
- Do the ways feminists articulate and demand justice “little room for rational conversations and thoughtful and complex discussions, hindering the progress that can be achieved through constructive dialogue”? RESURJ member Dana Zhang shares an update from Taiwan in “The Rise of Taiwan’s #MeToo Movement Propelled by a Netflix Show”.
- RESURJ member Mangia Macuacua from Mozambique writes a personal essay on feminism and the fight for bodily autonomy in “Percebendo o Feminismo: Espero Chegar a Liberdade do Corpo da Mulher | Realizing Feminism: I hope to achieve bodily freedom for women”.
- And last but not least, RESURJ member Mirta Moragas from Paraguay sends a dispatch from the latest election of commissioners to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in “Elecciones en la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Una de cal y otra de arena | Elections in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. One of lime and one of sand”.