Towards a Feminist Consciousness is a pan-African queer feminist collective founded in 2017 as a safe and liberating space to discuss, theorise, and organise around issues of feminism and liberation, deconstructing them in light of our contexts where systems of oppression intersect: colonialism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, capitalism, racism, and exile. It also came about as an activation of the idea of documenting and mobilising within feminist movements in Arabic-speaking Africa and West Asia. The Collective participates in the production of revolutionary feminist knowledge through writings, personal experiences, translations, and research that aim to analyse the roots of patriarchal and colonial systems and their supporting structures while actively creating alternative pan-Africanist feminist knowledge.
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