As insecurities are growing globally, the current geopolitics is making international gender equality work more complex, with renewed forms of state violence, attacks against land and human rights defenders, antifeminist and antigender movements, as well as wars and genocides. At the same time, State violence has increased, openly adopting authoritarian discourses and targeting people and collectives that intend to fight those gendered and racialized insecurities.
This context of multiple crises makes it highly difficult to think about the possibilities of international, translocal, and feminist collaborations. How do the compounded effects of this new international climate affect gendered insecurities across the globe? How can we think about political resistance in this context?
This panel wants to reflect on that possibility. Through critical feminist lenses, the panel challenges the current era characterized by multiple crises by thinking through different cases – such as Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Peru and Ecuador – that bring radical hope as a way to resist autocracy, wars, and genocides. It engages with the resistance of women and feminized bodies to dispossession, extractivism, climate injustices, antigender politics, war, and armed violence. We claim to open a space that brings radical hope as a theorization against the multiple assaults on life that characterize the current geopolitical order.