worldwide it is feminist movements that today, as protagonists, lead the struggles against extractive capitalism, racist authoritarianism and (neo-) colonialism. The gathering brings together a diverse range of feminist movements, including Latin American collectives, Kurdish, Iranian, and North African liberation movements, as well as queer and transfeminist activists and thinkers. Unlike a liberal, predominantly Western feminist agenda does, such movements do not reduce themselves to demanding an equal share for women* and queers in the eroding paradigm of the current toxic way of life. Rather, they understand patriarchy as intersectionally intertwined with ecocide, state violence, or neoliberalism. For such approaches, that are mostly originating in the struggles of the South, feminism, “mulherismo”, or “women’s liberation”, are much more than a question of equality that is exhausted in individual empowerment. It is a political project for comprehensive justice that aims at structural transformation: decolonization and planetary care work, political sovereignty, socialization of social reproduction, and revolutionary democratization of everyday living conditions.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer takes up these approaches with the festival “¡PROTAGONISTAS! Resistance Feminisms Revolution”. Lectures, workshops, panels and assemblies will focus on war, border politics and revolutions in West Asia, decolonial ecofeminism and the political economy of “race”, feminist abolitionism, gender violence, hetero-cis normativity or investigative journalism. Following the slogan of the Kurdish liberation movement, we want to give expression to the struggles that reclaim life: “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.”