WOMEN'S ACTIVISM
Welcome to today’s talk on the #MeToo movement and the Need for Structural Change with Professor Durba Mitra of Harvard University. Durba will tell us why it is essential for feminist thought to be enacted in a political movement that starts with the individual but shapes a collective imagination.
IN THIS LESSON
Our learning objectives today are:
To examine the influence of the #MeToo movement in making gender equality issues mainstream.
To enrich the meaning of political protest for women.
To understand why environmentalism is fundamentally tied to the rise of feminist thought.
KEY POINTS
We leave you with some key points.
The #MeToo movement shows the importance of women’s testimony about their personal experiences as a political idea.
There’s no space where one can be a woman of colour and a political leader, or part of a political or social movement, without it being dangerous. But in these political movements, whether it’s in the global north or in the global south, women of colour take leadership positions.
The most radically different visions of the future come from feminist leaders, feminist scholars and feminist artists, all of whom are working today. One of the biggest challenges of feminist mobilisation is translating critique into structural change. Feminism offers the tools for us to re-imagine a more just future.
