Emerging Voices: Feminist Activism before and after the Pandemic

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: SJES026 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)

Language: English and Spanish

This panel aims to explore and examine young feminist movements in the global South, both before and after the pandemic. We intend to analyze the various forms of activism carried out by young women in regional and local contexts, highlighting their strategies, challenges, achievements, and shifts in the fight for gender equality. We will consider how the pandemic has generated significant transformations in these movements and the new forms of resistance and organization that have emerged in response to the socio-economic and political changes brought about by the health crisis. We are also interested in addressing feminist mobilizations that have taken place previously in the emergence of the so-called feminist wave that took place in Latin America, starting with #NiUnaMenos in Argentina in 2015, the Chilean student feminist movement in May 2018, and the feminist student mobilizations in Mexico since 2016, without overlooking the highly visible #MeToo movement.

We aim to identify the achievements of the young feminist movement in their local, national, and regional contexts, the structural changes they have achieved, and how these translate into advances towards equality and non-discrimination for women. At the same time, we are interested in understanding the obstacles, shifts, and setbacks of the same movement, whether due to internal conflicts or the difficulties of structurally and institutionally transforming the conditions of inequality and oppression in which they have historically been placed.

Session Organizers:
Camila PONCE LARA, Philipps Universitat Marburg, Chile and Marcela MENESES REYES, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Chair:
Camila PONCE LARA, Philipps Universitat Marburg, Chile
Co-Chair:
Marcela MENESES REYES, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Oral Presentations
Learning As Resistance: Mapping the Construction of Chinese Feminist Digital Activism Community Solidarity in the Context of Neoliberalism
Ms. Yushan WANG, MA, University of Pennsylvania, USA
The Transformation of Diaspora Political Subjectivity through Social Movement Participation: A Case Study on Young Chinese Feminists Organising in Japan
Yushuang YANG, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Connecting Social Trust and Empowerment: A Socio-Analytical Study of Women’s Organisations
Ruby Amanda OBORO-OFFERIE, University of Oregon, USA
Redefining What Is at Stake: The Rise of Intersectionality in Youth Movements in Italy
Paola REBUGHINI, University of Milan, Italy; Lidia LO SCHIAVO, University of Messina, Italy
At the Crossroads between Violence and Migration: Migrant Women’s Grassroots Struggles Against Intersectional Violence in Spain
Desirè GAUDIOSO GAUDIOSO, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Feminist Resistance across the Ocean: Diffusion of 2019 "Un Violador En Tu Camino" Protests from Chile to Turkey
Batuhan EREN, Italy
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