FemIDEAS

The North-South Feminist Dialogue series was started by Dr Adrija Dey in 2020 with the aim of creating a decolonial, intersectional, feminist, and safer space where survivors, academics, activists, and organisers working in the area of sexual and gender-based violence in universities could come together across borders to learn, support each other, and show solidarity. The need for the series emerged from her research and activism, which showed that much of the research on issues of sexual and gender-based violence predominantly focuses on the global North with little to no knowledge exchange between the global North and South. The radical and innovative research and activism happening in the global South remain invisible in global conversations on these issues. Indeed, some of the emerging issues being discussed in the global North HE have already been discussed or addressed within the academic and activist communities in the South. So, in this series, we aim to disrupt colonial legacies of knowledge production and centre the voices of survivors and those who are pushed to the margins of our society.