Feminisation of resistance

This strand of writing, reflections and practice emerges from Sara’s activist collaborations and shared projects of knowledge creation within women in movement in Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil. It explores not only the essential role of women, mothers, grandmothers and aunties in new forms of resistance and reinvention of democracy but also a change in the nature of politics. This change involves the increasing prevalence of practices which are feminised in that they emphasise active listening, an ethics of care, connection, sharing and thinking together as opposed to domination, speaking-over and a politics of mastery and monologue with leaders thinking and doing for the mass.