The Feminist Collective - IHEID

Yesterday was a powerful day.
We were able to create a safe and inclusive space for our community to come together and reflect.

Reflect on the lives of our sisters and siblings lost to violence with tears in our eyes.
Reflect on our daily fight to protect ourselves, our friends, our fellow humans from this violence.
Reflect on how perverse this daily fight is, and how exhausted we are from fighting it and still be counting deaths and victims in unbelievable numbers.
Reflect on how short-lasting our protest, our safe space is, with respect to millenia of uninterrupted fight for our lives.
Reflect on our determination to finally interrupt an ancestral cycle of struggle and pain.

And, after much reflecting, realize that we will put an end to that cycle.
Because the end of our protest was all but the end of our fight for justice.

We will fight to, one day, stop fighting, for Sarah and for all.

✊🏻

Women's March - Geneva
Grève des femmes, grève féministe - Genève
Les Foulards Violets

Come to the Picciotto Common Room to unleash your creativity and prepare the posters for tomorrow's manifestation (Place des Nations, 4 PM).

Artsy supplies provided 🎨

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The Feminist Collective and GISA are calling for a vote from the IHEID student body to approve the community-wide endorsement of a solidarity statement against the Anti-Burqa Initiative, also known as "L'Interdiction de se Dissimuler le Visage".

This political initiative, which will be voted on in a Switzerland-wide referendum on March 7, proposes an amendment to the Swiss Confederation's constitution banning the wearing of burqa and niqab on Swiss territory.

The Feminist Collective opposes the initiative and has released a solidarity statement, which we now want to bring to the attention of the whole student body.

HOW TO VOTE? 📮

Check your IHEID e-mail address and look for the e-mail titled "24 hours VOTE: Social Movements Endorsements".
Click on the link to vote, read our solidarity statement and vote YES!

Don't forget to do the same for QISA's solidarity statement with the Turkish LGBTQI+ community.
You'll find resources and readings on both situations in the voting form.

Voting ends at 19:45 today - don't miss the chance to express your solidarity! 💪🏻

Five days ago, the Feminist Collective and the Graduate Press released a letter in response to ongoing events at Sciences Po, and in particular to a statement posted by The Graduate Institute, Geneva Directrice Marie-Laure Salles on her LinkedIn profile.

We have now updated the original statement with Directrice Salles’s reply.

Check it out at:
https://thegraduatepress.org/2021/02/17/a-response-to-directrice-salless-statement-concerning-sciencesporcs

A Response to Directrice Salles’s Statement Concerning #SciencesPorcs We, members of the Feminist Collective, request from Directrice Marie-Laure Salles that she clarifies her statement on ongoing events at Sciences Po, particularly the Duhamel affair and …

In response to ongoing events at Sciences Po, and in particular to a statement posted by The Graduate Institute, Geneva Directrice Marie-Laure Salles on her LinkedIn profile, the Feminist Collective has released a letter together with The Graduate Press.

Read the full letter at:
https://thegraduatepress.org/2021/02/17/a-response-to-directrice-salless-statement-concerning-sciencesporcs

Share it with your colleagues and help these events be known.

A Response to Directrice Salles’s Statement Concerning #SciencesPorcs We, members of the Feminist Collective, request from Directrice Marie-Laure Salles that she clarifies her statement on ongoing events at Sciences Po, particularly the Duhamel affair and …

As part of the Gender and Diversity Month at the Institute, the Feminist Collective and Whxteness will be hosting an online seminar and conversation on the relationship between whiteness, racism and the feminist movement.

The discussion will retrace the historical roots of the feminist movement and its systematic erasure of black, brown and indigenous women’s experiences.

We will talk about the perceived whiteness of the suffragette movement, and the perceived sexual liberation of white women in the 60's and 70's, a time where women of color and indigenous women were being forcibly sterilised.
Our historical overview will also touch upon the movement, which was overwhelmingly white despite being started by a black woman.

We will tackle the way black women were constructed as objects during slavery and how this still informs present-day stereotypes.
We will talk about the concrete ways through which white feminists contribute to and maintain white supremacy.
Finally, we will be learning about the ways authors are suggesting to decolonize feminism.

Whxteness is an online platform run by Lisa and Iseult, two friends educating white people on race issues.
You can find them on Facebook and Instagram - go follow and support them!

Check out the event page on our Facebook and sign up - you can also do that here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rMVspHmcUCrHir65HaGLOGyMyPGJ9KrCmkg9NJQ9UKQ/edit?usp=sharing
You will receive the link via e-mail a few hours in advance of the event (Saturday 14 at 6 PM).
We are looking forward to discussing and learning with you!

Violence against women is one of the main problems that Latin America faces every day of the year. What is the current reality of this issue in Brazil and Bolivia? What are some of the strategies from a legal and social perspective? What is the relationship between domestic violence and COVID-19?

In this opportunity on Saturday 16, LANI
and The Gender Dialogues have the honor to receive two incredible lawyers from Bolivia and Brazil who will give us their perspective and share experiences as lawyers and activists.

The guests are:

Arlety Tordoya, lawyer of Mujeres Creando, feminist activist and a great defender of women's rights.

Helena Rocha, lawyer and president of / the Commission of Gender / Violence of OAB/PR.

The event is open to everyone, please come and join us!!

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99716876429

Our second column for Feminist Voices below:

Further Notes on Privilege This second edition of Feminist Voices will tackle the notion of privilege — one that is at the centre of numerous debates today. Grappling with privilege is a constant learning process, and I beli…

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Welcome to the Feminist Collective, a platform for engagement with feminist issues both in and outside of our IHEID community. In collaboration with The Graduate Press, we’ll be also be publishing a biweekly column, “Feminist Voices.” Check out our first piece below about why it is crucial that feminist voices and perspectives are uplifted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why Feminist Voices are necessary during the COVID-19 pandemics A reflection by someone socialised and perceived as cis-heterosexual male for someone who may not care, so, you know, probably not that relevant.