Femonationalism
Femonationalism is a concept, coined by Sara Farris, which refers to how the far right weaponises and exploits the struggle for women’s liberation in the name of anti-Islam and anti-migrant rhetoric. It is an ideology that seeks to exclude racialised and/or Muslim men under the guise of gender equality. Femonationalism is related to the crisis […]
Coloniality of Gender
The concept of the “coloniality of gender” has its roots in the work of the late scholar María Lugones, who argued that rather than being natural, gender identities and roles have been shaped, constructed, and enforced through colonial processes of domination and control. The theory itself builds on Aníbal Quijano concept of the ‘coloniality of […]
Communitarian Feminism
By Maria Del Pilar Villanueva Communitarian feminism is a revolutionary proposal from native women of Abiayala (the continent often referred to as Latin America) to address the multiple oppressions they have historically faced. Drawing from the ancestral principles of Abya Yala’s indigenous peoples’, it also contends that patriarchy uses colonialism to oppress all people. For communitarian […]
