Decolonial Feminism - Charting a Path Towards a Just and Liberatory Tomorrow

Summary

A primer on decolonial feminism by Shubha Chacko for the feminist alliance BRICS Feminist Watch. Its demand is “not merely a seat at the table but rather rejecting the entire model”, since colonialism reshaped gender, knowledge and economies. It’s “an experimental, risky, and unfinished project” aiming, in a borrowed line, at “positive models of re-existence rather than mere resistance.”

Rationale

Decolonial feminists, Chacko notes, show that “purportedly emancipatory or liberal endeavours often rely on colonial frameworks, sometimes inadvertently”: the risk we name for our own work.