Transnational Institute 375d ago

In this final session of the Fractures Teach-in Series, we ask what are our imagined liberated futures? How can we build these within and beyond a fractured world? What are the alternatives that social movements are investing time, energy, resources and solidarity into building and sustaining? - Kali Akuno, co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson, USA - Blessol Gathoni, Queer Social Rights Activist and Community Organiser, Kenya - Lyn Ossome, Associate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda - Co-moderator: Hakima Abbas, African feminist strategist and popular educator Visit our website: https://www.tni.org Support our work: https://www.tni.org/en/support-tni Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.tni.org/en/subscribe 00:00 Introduction by Shaun Matsheza (host) 03:04 Introduction by Hakima (co-moderator) 07:51 Kali on 'Build and Fight' formula of Cooperation Jackson 15:38 Gathoni on African queerness as a decolonial and anti-Capitalist imaginary 22:23 Lyn on centering neoliberalism's 'surplus peoples' 34:09 Kali on carving out space in authoritarian systems 46:23 Gathoni on the limits of human rights discourses 54:32 Lyn on why land struggles are also about freedom, care, spirit 01:08:47 Kali on how to navigate collapse and crisis 01:18:57 Lyn on putting 'surplus' people at heart of our work 01:23:02 Gathoni's final mic drop!