On February 17th, 2026, we held our joint session with Takatoat, “What Do Feminists Want?” to introduce the English translation of Takatoat’s “Voices from a Feminist Future” (produced and published in Arabic in 2024) alongside shared reflections from our South Feminist Manifesto.

The panel opened a collective space to ponder on the political significance of feminist imagination in the current moment, as a practice rooted in intersectional analysis, lived realities, and movement-building. The session engages feminist imagination as a political practice: why it matters, what it disrupts, and what becomes possible when we insist on futures beyond systems of oppression and domination. The session also highlighted the importance of feminist knowledge production around imagination and futures. It shared the journey of working on “Voices from a Feminist Future”: how the booklet came together, what shaped its approach, and what it means to build feminist archives that speak from our contexts and struggles.

This collaboration between Takatoat and South Feminist Futures came from a shared belief in the necessity of politicising feminist organising and building anti-colonial narratives rooted in the Global South. It was also inspired by two projects: “Voices from a Feminist Future” (produced by Takatoat) and the South Feminist Manifesto (produced by South Feminist Futures) as collective feminist imagination projects that explore how we might live, organise, and build our relationships beyond the systems of oppression and domination that shape our realities today and constrain what we can imagine.

Speakers:

  • Banan Suad AbuZainEddin – feminist activist, Co-founder, and Executive Director of Takatoat. She possesses a deep passion for political feminist organizing, knowledge building and exchange, and the strengthening of collaborative networks. Through her work, she strives to create critical, radical, and intersectional feminist spaces by collaborating with feminist groups and collectives in Jordan and the region.
  • Rama Sabanekh – Feminist researcher and author of Voices from a Feminist Future. Rama works in research, journalistic production, and writing, with a background in geography and the political economy of the Levant. Her research focuses on the intersections of urban structures and occupation, and how they shape the human fabric of cities, through feminist and materialist lenses.
  • Souad Souilem – Pan-African feminist from the occupied Western Sahara; one of the contributing voices in Voices from a Feminist Future. Suad is a co-founding member of Nahwa Wa‘y Nasawi, a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), and is engaged in revolutionary organizing against colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist systems.

Moderator:

  • Maty Diawara – Ivorian intersectional feminist, writer, researcher, and communications professional. Deeply committed to human rights and social justice, she holds a Master’s degree in International Development from Sciences Po Paris, with expertise in the geopolitical dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Her work focuses on participatory action research, decolonial knowledge production, and culturally sensitive policymaking that centers intersectionality as critical drivers of development in the Global South.

We have curated a special reading list of resources on the topic of this session, available on our South Feminist Knowledge Hub. It is designed to deepen your understanding of the themes and inspire meaningful discussion – featuring powerful contributions from authors and thinkers across the Global South.