Disha Sughand LusunguKM LusunguKM is an unapologetic Malawian feminist & activist passionate about freedom for all women and girls particularly working on violence against women and girls’ prevention and the feminist movement building space.

Read more on her feminist journey: womankind.org.uk/introducing-lu…

It’s amazing to be part of the Board as Womankind goes through change and growth. Really exciting things to come!

Disha Sughand LusunguKM Disha has worked with us for the past 13 years. She is a feminist committed to social justice having spent the last 24 years leading change in women’s rights, racial justice, mental health, homelessness & refugee rights.

Follow her feminist journey here womankind.org.uk/womankind-worl…

Excited to serve as Co-Chair for the Board of Trustees at Womankind Worldwide 😁

📢 A Thread!

💃🏾We are pleased to announce the appointments of Disha Sughand & Diana Njuguna as our new Co-CEOs together w/ LusunguKM our new Co-Chair, Board of Trustees

Join us in this new feminist co-leadership journey womankind.org.uk/womankind-worl…

💁🏾‍♀️ Did you know UAF A&P’s Security and Well-being grants are available all year round?

☘ If you’re a woman, trans, or non-binary human rights defender in need of urgent financial support, apply for our rapid response grants today!

🔗 Details here:
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#FeministJobs

Anti-feminist men on X: I get a fair amount of pushback to my posts from anti-feminist, pro-patriarchal men. I think most fall into 2 types of 'Reply Guy', the Sea Lion and the Mansplainer. Here are helpful short guides to both.
See bardoloi.com/blog/2018/09/1… (Shrew & Scott Barolo)

It's happened again... In partnership with @ids_uk, we've been ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies for the 8th year in a row in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024! 🌎

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 University of Sussex Business School School of Media, Arts and Humanities School of Education & Social Work 🏳️‍🌈💪

I’m big on self preservation, i don’t put myself in any unsafe spaces or uncomfortable situations. I don’t need ‘enemies’ to see my success or to prove anything to anyone. If i don’t care for you, i don’t want to see you, speak to you or allow you access to me in any way.

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Apply for the #SVRIForum24 Young Professionals Programme Bursary which aims to equip the next generation of researchers and practitioners to undertake high quality research and programming on #VAW & #VAC . Closing date: 12 April 2024, 11:59 SAST.

🔗svriforum2024.org/bursaries/

Happy #Mozambique Women’s Day! Feliz 7 de Abril! Remembering all the women fighters for Africa’s liberation!” ✊🏾✊🏿💜

Statement by Réseau des féministes du Sénégal ✊🏿 on #Senegal new government and dismal women’s representation

Le « Réseau des féministes du Sénégal » se dit consterné par le faible pourcentage des femmes dans le nouveau gouvernement walf-groupe.com/blog/2024/04/0…

In a few hours it will be 4 years since I was brutally raped.
I survived, I thrived.
Still healing, still fighting.

To all survivors, I recognize the fighting spirit in you.
I believe you.
I see you.
I feel you.

In love and solidarity,
Martha Mwatha.

#SVRIForum24 is offering a limited number of bursaries for researchers, practitioners, activists, and others working on #VAW & #VAC . Closing date: 12 April 2024, 11:59 SAST. Find out more here: svriforum2024.org/bursaries

'what is the utility of empathy as a leadership skill when it enables us to deny any complicity with the root causes of people’s suffering?' Leila Billing asks in this reflection article,this time on how we practice empathy in feminist leadership.
leila-billing.medium.com/empathy-is-not…

🌟 Empathy is a much-lauded leadership skill. But does it always deliver what it promises? Can feminists concerned with radical change imagine beyond the versions of empathy that are being sold to us? Yes we can! I wrote about it... leila-billing.medium.com/empathy-is-not…

LusunguKM I once went to see my GP at the allotted time and was told sanabwere ku lunch. I asked when they thought he would be in and they said kaya ingodikilani. Same doctor recently kept my mum waiting while he finished a box of pizza despite having set the appointment time himself

LusunguKM Made first appt of the day. Was 10 minutes early. 4 people arrived earlier. Doc was not yet in. Then the clinic manager tried to run a first come, first served system. I politely insisted. Who is problematic? Mxxiieww