Intersectional Feminist Foreign Policy

Deqa Dhalac is the first Somali-American mayor in the United States After fleeing Somalia some 30 years ago, Dhalac became this country's first Somali-American mayor earlier this month, elected in a city that's 90% white.

This is Nadia Nadim. She was born in Afghanistan. Her father was murdered by the Taliban when she was 11 years old and her family fled to Denmark on the back of a truck.

Nadia has scored almost 200 goals in professional football and represented the Danish national team 98 times.

She's completed medical school and is studying to become a reconstructive surgeon when her playing days are over.

She speaks 11 languages fluently and is on the Forbes list of Most Powerful Women in International Sports.

If you want to show your daughter a role model, show her Nadia Nadim....

Somali women protesting for the release of Angela Davis in Mogadishu (1972)
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"Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking": Kamala Harris is every woman in the workplace

"I don’t know who needs to hear this right now but one year before Alexandria Ocasio Cortez became the youngest ever congresswoman, she was working two jobs to support her mum, at a charity and as a bartender in the Bronx. She has been trolled for being working-class and not having enough experience, and she has openly admitted to regularly battling imposter syndrome in politics. She was the underdog that the media didn’t take seriously until she won and she is absolutely the type of woman we celebrate and work towards. And if you need any more reasons to love her, read this... 'Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. I wasn’t born into a rich or powerful family. My dad died when I was a teenager. I’ve waitressed my way through hard times and dealt with disappointment. The dress I'm wearing is from a thrift shop. The ring on my hand is my mother’s - a reminder of every floor she's mopped so that her daughter could have a chance.' So the next time you question if you can do something let’s just remind ourselves of everything AOC stands for."

For those who may have missed our first webinar ‘Humsnitarian ‘neutrality’ and ‘white supremacy’ that we hosted to Adeso Africa, you can now view the recording below.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xB7CHGhBKyc

Adeso and IFFP Webinar Series Part 1 Intersectional Feminist Foreign Policy(IFFP) and Adeso hosted the Part 1 of the three-part series on imagining and creating a decolonised world with Racial a...

Navigating therapy is hard enough, but as black women we face higher barriers than most. Tobi unpacks how Michaela Coel’s new show is bringing black women’s therapy to light.

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Hear to Slay Hear to Slay is the Black feminist podcast of your dreams, hosted by acclaimed writers Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom. Listen as they offer incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume.

Intersectional Feminist Foreign Policy and Adeso are inviting you to the first in a three part webinar series on imagining and creating a decolonised world with Racial and economic justice at its core. Join us for our panel discussion on Humanitarian ‘neutrality’ and white supremacy on July 21st from 6:00pm - 7:30pm (BST) with our panel: Degan Ali, Rob Grace, Dr Hugo Slim and Dr Joanne Davies. For more info on how to register for this event and the speakers bios, please scroll below.

Degan Ali, Executive director of Adeso.

Degan Ali has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the humanitarian and development field. Degan is a strong believer in transforming the current aid system to give more power and voice to local communities and civil society organizations. Following this belief, Degan continues to innovate and develop new solutions to build the infrastructure that will truly shift power and resources, including co-founding the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR).

Rob Grace, Fellow at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Harvard University.

Rob Grace is a researcher and affiliated fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, where he undertakes research on humanitarian-military relations. He is also a fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he researches humanitarian negotiation. Previously, he conducted research on a variety of issues of humanitarian policy-making and practice for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Dr. Hugo Slim- Senior Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Dr. Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the Blavatnik School of Government. Between 2015 and 2020, he was Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, where he led humanitarian policymaking and diplomacy on protracted conflict, migration, internal displacement, urban warfare, new weapons and climate and conflict. He also coordinated the ICRC’s delegation to the United Nations in New York.

Dr. Joanne Davies is a Lecturer in International Development, the Programme Director of the BSc International Development at the University of Reading, and Lead of the International Development Teaching Forum. Prior to joining Reading in 2015, Jo worked in the Humanitarian Department at Oxfam and, before that, was a consultant at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.

Chair: Shaista Aziz, co-founder IFFP.

Registration details:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_syR00vW-T2yt_SZa3087LQ

Dr Nadia Aghtaie from University of Bristol is currently doing research on Gender-based violence within national and international contexts and
Cultural and structural violence within Muslim context. Her academic expertise is invaluable and we are very grateful for her time to share it with us! 🗣

Join us for our third Zoom Collective webinar this Saturday, June 20th, 11.30-12:45.

We are discussing cognitive dissonance, how whiteness manifests and impacts Black women, women of colour, and white women. We will strategise the work Intersectional feminists must do to become active anti-racists.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kc-2grD8sHtYQtlXLjQ9hOJzVy1CJiAHm