COMMUNITY
Pakistan's Feminist Wave: A Panel
Three prominent Pakistani feminist activists convene with Associate Editor Nur Nasreen Ibrahim in the wake of the Motorway Incident in 2020.
Zoya Rehman
· Amna Chaudhry
· Tooba Syed
After the motorway rape case in September 2020, SAAG convened a panel of prominent feminist activists to discuss why Pakistan has seen growing violence against women and marginalized communities, and what movement-building and strategies they are involved in at a particularly charged moment in Pakistani feminist activism.
After the motorway rape case in September 2020, SAAG convened a panel of prominent feminist activists to discuss why Pakistan has seen growing violence against women and marginalized communities, and what movement-building and strategies they are involved in at a particularly charged moment in Pakistani feminist activism.
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Panel
Pakistan
Feminist Organizing
Women Democratic Front
Motorway Incident
Body Politics
Women's Action Forum (WAF)
Awami Workers Party
Public Space
Gender Violence
Girls at Dhabas
Khwaja Siras
Nirbhaya
Movement Organization
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Internationalist Perspective
Postcolonial Feminist Theory
Contradiction
Movement Strategy
Aurat March
Zoya Rehman is a a feminist organiser, lawyer, and independent researcher-writer based in Islamabad.
AMNA CHAUDHRY is a writer and activist based in Lahore. She also teaches creative writing and writes the newsletterThis Is The Mod Squad, which covers feminism and ethics in the fashion industry.
Tooba Syed is a grassroots political organizer and gender researcher. She has been organising for over a decade with grassroots movements of peasants, urban working class, students and women. She is a Founding Member and currently Secretary of Information and Publishing of Women Democratic Front and a member of the Awami Workers Party, Punjab. She teaches at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.