After the Event?

After the Event?

As the wave of popular protests sweeps the globe, there is a growing recognition within activist movements of the exhaustion of traditional radical politics of ideological models and organisational vanguards. Sara Motta calls for a new politics in which people have...
After the Event?

Popular education as a living project

In her new column, Sara Motta explores the remarkable work of La Máscara Theatre company – the only feminist theatre group in Colombia, and reflects on how its methods can be used in popular education for the building of global movements of resistance.
After the Event?

For the Love of Heretics

"It remains easy to find the great leader able to rouse the masses with his beautiful speeches... yet beats his wife when he arrived home". In her new column, Sara Motta further explores the case for why politicising the personal is urgent and...
After the Event?

Our Blood is Red

In her latest column, Sara Motta reflects on women’s relationship with their bodies, including their experience of menstruation. Looking back to history, she argues, we begin to unravel the processes of disconnection, separation and estrangement that devalue,...