Lead Like A Feminist

Watch this space 👀 Over the next few weeks we're publishing a series of articles and resources bringing together months of research and reading exploring an alternative global story about power and what this means for our leadership and lives. 👉 The first one will be out later this week 👀 Let us know in the comments below if you'd any other important verbs to our current list 💪 #leadership #feminist

How do we build feminist solidarity? 🤝 In a time of accelerating, interconnected crises its vital that we find ways to compassionately connect with the suffering of others whilst nurturing the resiliant joy we need to continue our work. We Are Feminist Leaders Building Feminist Solidarity Series: Voices From Palestine is: 🤝 A life and peace affirming, collective approach to solidarity with Palestine feminist activists, academics, thinkers and allies. 🤝 A powerful living model for how we can nurture feminist solidarity in our turbulent and divided times across other crises. Many compassionate people and communities do not know what to do in the face of such immense suffering- we turn our backs because otherwise the realities will destroy our peace of mind and well-being. We feel powerless to change anything so we disconnect. This work reveals an alternative path we can chose to take together. We do not need to drown alone- we can face the storm together. Their online series explores: 🤝How are Palestinian women resisting? 🤝What does feminist solidarity look like in this moment? 🤝In what ways do imagination and creativity become instruments of healing, resistance and solidarity? Each session provides space for storytelling, discussion, (un)learning, and connection 👉 reimagining a world of shared empowerment and justice. 🌍 You can find their full collection of resources at the link in the comments. Thank you We Are Feminist Leaders for living and breathing feminist values in a way we can all learn from. 💛 #feminist #leadership #palestine

9 things you should know about feminist co-leadership 🤝 👉 1) Co-Leadership offers a structural model to enable shared responsibility and decision-making between two or more people. 👉 2) Feminist co-leaders in particular are commited to transform themselves and use their power, resources and skills, in non-oppressive, inclusive practices and processes. 👉 3) Co-leadership can support an organisation to be dynamic, robust, sustainable and flexible. 👉 4) Co-leadership is not a panacea to address unsustainable and/ or hierarchical leadership, and does not provide an inevitable pathway to healthy organisations with well distributed power. 👉 5) Co-leadership can lead to further decentralisation and collectivisation of leadership beyond the executive function, within and across organisations. 👉 6) If the intention of shared leadership is not actively named and practised across the organisation, co-leadership can even work to reinforce power dynamics, consolidate power or make leadership less accessible to their staff and senior leadership teams. 👉 7) Many organisations turn to co-leadership as a response to persistent hardship in their context, burn out, unsustainable workload and pace of the work. 👉 8) Many co-leaders have made efforts to prioritise practices of ritual, collective care and joy in their work. 👉 9) Co-leadership may not work for everyone all the time - for some organisations it may only be impactful at certain moments in their life cycle. #feminist #leadership

We've created a short introduction to POWER 💪 for you 👉 designed to help you apply a power lens to yourself and your work in the length of a lunch break 🥐 ☕ Leading Like A Feminist is all about learning how to build and use anti-oppressive power. This starts within ourselves, how we relate to others and how we understand injustice in our work. This short introduction brings together much longer resources in a bitesize format so that you can start redefining your relationship with power TODAY 🎊 Key content: 👉 What is power? 👉 What does power look like? 👉 How do we express power? 👉 How to do a power analysis? Let us know what you think 👇 #feminist #leadership

Leading Like a Feminist means Living Like A Feminist 👉 If we believe in a world free of oppression then we must learn to be an anti-oppressive force in our own lives and workplaces. This resource from Womankind Worldwide as part of their #EverydayFeminism campaign equips us to address common myths about feminism and provides key stats on why a feminist future is needed more than ever. 🌎 We particularly 💛 some of their ideas for how we can recognise and use our power in our every day lives through simple actions like: 💥 Confronting our biases: we all have them, and that’s OK. The important thing is to know this, then take steps to learn (and unlearn) certain behaviours. Start by investing in your own continuous learning by reading books on anti-racism and books by feminist authors. 💥Ensuring care and domestic work is evenly distributed in our households and doesn’t fall disproportionately on the shoulders of women and girls. 💥 Whatever our identities, showing solidarity by joining marches and signing petitions to demand justice and equality – including but not limited to issues related to global women’s rights, racial justice, disability justice and LGBTQI+ rights. 💥If it’s safe to do so, challenging sexist language when we hear it rather than letting it pass; explain why it’s not OK and offer an alternative. 💥 Ensuring events we’re involved with are accessible for people with disabilities. 💥 Allowing our children to play with different types of toys and wear clothes that feel right to them, or in other words, try not to force them to adhere to strict gender stereotypes but rather choose their preferences freely 💥 Understanding our history: learning more about the world today by reading about the past from many different perspectives, particularly those of people who were oppressed. #feminist #leadership

To mark #BlackHistoryMonth we wanted to share some of the radical and bold Black Feminist writings that have been a thread of hope for us in overwhelming maze of harmful gender and power norms. 🧵 🧵The most beautiful aspect of black feminist writing is how the ideas of different thinkers connect and grow together. 🧵A thread runs between them to anyone who is tired of the current world order and seeks an alternative ❤️🔥 🧵 from sparking discontent with the status quo 🧵 to recognising the nature of oppression in our external world 🧵 to finding and dismantling the same patterns in our minds 🧵 to imagining an alternative way of being and building our future 👉 Follow the thread with us.... ❤️🔥 Maya Angelou and the call to dream together Many of us are conditioned to feel powerless unless power and authority are granted to us by an external figure or institution. Maya Angelou’s famous words plant an image in our souls of the power that exists within each one of us and that we can build together. She calls us to dream more ambitiously and vividly for ourselves and each other. ❤️🔥Sylvia Tamale and the nature of oppression Sylvia Tamale elucidates how the invisible power couple of narrative and knowledge are the most potent tools of global oppression. She helps us to understand why nurturing more collective and communal forms of power requires a fundamental reimagining of the way we think and everything that flows from this, including time, morality, political systems, leadership, taste and norms. ❤️🔥bell hooks and the patterns that live within us bell hooks challenges the thought patterns within Western philosophy that perpetuate oppression. The tendency to form binary hierarchies of meaning that privilege one way of being or doing over another, including man over woman, rational over emotional and expertise over lived experience, makie one group great at the expense of another. These binaries limit our imaginative potential. They cage us. ❤️🔥 Audre Lourde and breaking the mould Audre Lourde’s essay gives us permission to be joyful and to play. In fact, she shows us how the sharing of joy with each other is the only way bridge the division and fear our society’s dominant philosophies and ways of being plant within us. ❤️🔥 adrienne maree brown and imagining a different world adrienne maree brown challenges accepted ideas of top-down, large scale linear change, offering us an alternative reality where we change everything we touch and everything we touch changes us. She invites us to pursue a cyclical, long-sighted vision of progress built through trusting relationships with ourselves, others and our non-human planet. Share the black feminist writings that have helped you find your way in the comments below 👇 #BlackHistoryMonth #feminist

One for the young feminists in your life.... 👩👧 This toolkit is aimed at young people finding their feet as feminist activists. Although primarily designed for an American audience, it has useful content for anyone who wants to learn more about what it means to live like a feminist. It aims to: 👉 give a general understanding of feminism 👉 share how we can all participate in this vital social movement Key Contents: 🌼 Learn 👉 The issue 👉 What is feminism? 👉 A brief history of feminism in America 👉 Modern-day sheroes 👉 Feminist Glossary 👉 Feminist concerns around the world 🌼 Join 👉 What is your cause? 👉 Join forces 👉 Own your story 👉 How to incorporate feminism into your daily life 🌼 Advocate 👉 What is advocacy? 👉 How to speak up on social media 👉 How to get involved locally 👉 How to get involved politically 🌼 Commit Created by Liveyourdream.org, powered by Soroptimist International HQ a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. #feminist #activist

This week is the UK's Women and Girls Big Give 👉 a matched funding campaign doubling donations for local, national and global work. 👉Sadly, explicitly feminist, rights focused or systems and norms change orientated work tends to underperform👉 the very work we most need to transform the harmful power structures that limit us all. 👉Globally, despite feminist movements being one of the most powerful forces for social change in the world, women’s rights and feminist organisations receive a miniscule proportion of gender and women focused funding. 😭 💥A global comparative analysis of policies on violence against women in 70 countries over 40 years concluded that the autonomous mobilisation of feminists is the critical factor accounting for policy change domestically and transnationally but women’s rights organisations receive only 0.4% of all gender related aid.💥 👉Meanwhile massive funding is being driven against the human rights of women and LGBTIQ people in the service of ultraconservative, fundamentalist, and patriarchal agendas. 💥 Between 2013 and 2017, the “anti-gender” movement received over $3.7 billion USD in funding💥 If we believe in a feminist future those of us who are able must put our money where our mouth is and go out of our way to support the vital work of feminist movements👉 The Big Give is a fantastic way to make any donation you can spare to feminist work go further. 😁 🌎 In an increasingly polarised and unstable world our actions matter🌎 That's why we've put together a little round-up of projects taking part in the Big Give designed to positively disrupt the status quo 🤸 👉 Irise International and the global movement for #MenstrualJusticeForAll 👉 Fawcett Society and the fight for a feminist future in UK society 👉 Global Girl Project and their work to support girls leadership in the Middle East and beyond 👉 Young Women's Trust and the vision of an equal world of work for young women in the UK Check them out, feel free to add you own recommendations in the comments below 👇 and donate here: https://lnkd.in/enWcw6r8

“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” – Blaise Pascal- this is at the heart of what it means to Lead Like A Feminist. This new guide brings together 20+ years of collective thinking and experience about Just Power and how we build it 🤸♀️ 🤸 🌍 We are living in unsettled and unsettling times. People and the planet are under incredible strain as the result of excessive greed, and the corruption and violence it generates. 🌎 And yet, against these threats, people in many places around the globe are taking action to demand accountability, democracy, and a liveable future rooted in care for people and the planet. As labor activist Joe Hill put it 👉 “Don’t mourn, organise!” 💥Whether you are an organiser, a movement builder, a community leader, an ‘artivist’, a student, a social justice NGO worker, a philanthropist, or someone from any other part of the social change ecosystem – this Guide is for you!💥 Key contents 👉 👉 Getting started 🌳 Starting with ourselves 🌳 Imagining the future we want 🌳 Roadmaps to change 🌳 Who are 'we'? 👉 Naming the moment 🌳 Between Crisis and Mobilisation 🌳 Global patterns, systemic shifts 🌳 Learning from history 🌳 Cracks where the light come in 👉 Making Sense of Power 🌳 What and where is Power? 🌳 Multiple forms and arenas of power 🌳 Systemic power 🌳 Power and Interconnected Identities 🌳 Power, Conflict and Violence 🌳 Analysis to strategy 👉 Identity, Intersectionality and Power 🌳 Identity, Power and Privilege 🌳 The Personal is Political 🌳 Identity, Power and Transformation 👉 The Power of Narratives 🌳 What Are Narratives? 🌳 How Do Narratives Affect Us? 🌳 Invisible and Systemic Power in Narratives 🌳 Unmasking and transforming narratives 🌳 Creating transformational narratives 👉 Power and Strategy 🌳What is strategy? 🌳 Connecting strategy to analysis? 🌳 Context and Moment 🌳 Building and Exercising Power 🌳 Engaging and Resisting Brought to us by JASS (Just Associates)- a community of practice, anchored in the Global South and working across 22 countries. Authored by Lisa VeneKlasen, Jethro Pettit , Alexa Bradley Edited by Annie Holmes Illustrations by Hansel Obando Contributions from many, many more.... 👏 Link to access the full book in the comments below 👇 #feminist #leadership

How can you moderate like a feminist? 🤔 This beautifully designed, extensively tried and tested free online course helps you learn to foster safer, inclusive dialogues. 💃 👉 Developed for citizen deliberations held across the European Union 2023-2024 and tested by moderators during regional meetings, as well as during national deliberations in 13 countries. 🙌 💥 What will you learn?💥 💛 Understanding feminist moderation: Explore why moderation should be feminist and delve into intersectional ecofeminism. 💛 Creating safe & accessible spaces: Learn the essentials of safe spaces and accessibility to ensure an inclusive environment for all participants. 💛 Feminist moderation techniques: Dive deep into techniques addressing master suppression, polarisation, and conflict de-escalation, enabling you to integrate feminist values effectively. 💛 Online moderation: Navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of online discussions. Understand the digital gender divide and explore tools to democratise online spaces. 👉 This course was developed by WECF International an ecofeminist network with 30 years of experience in facilitating civil society so you can benefit from their expertise in moderating discussions, from local roundtables to, online forums, to large-scale civil society forums at UN level. 👉 Beautiful and funky illustrations by Leyla Ali. 👉 Funded by the European Union Link to the full resource in the comments below. Thank you Hanna Gunnarsson for sharing with us. 💛 #feminist #leadership