Sachini Perera

Sachini Perera is a queer feminist from Sri Lanka. Over the last 15 years, their research, advocacy and activism have focused on a number of different and interconnected areas through a critical feminist lens: technology as a site of power and organizing; the promise and inherent limitations of multilateralism and international law; supporting and leading feminist organizing at national, regional and global levels; resourcing for feminist and social justice movements; and co-creating South feminist analysis on gender, sexuality, expression, pleasure, and bodily autonomy.

Sachini is the Executive Coordinator of RESURJ, a transnational feminist alliance of younger feminists from the global south. They co-created Delete Nothing, a feminist initiative in Sri Lanka that documents and responds to online gender-based violence. They have an MA in Digital Culture and Society from King’s College London, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Colombo and was a 2019/2020 Chevening scholar. Sachini was a Co-Chair of the steering group of the Alliance for Feminist Movements and has also served in advisory capacities for the likes of Nebula Fund, Women’s Fund Asia and the W7.

What brings me pleasure:

Rice and curry, holding hands, TikTok, sunrise, and belly laughs and hearty cries with friends.