Feminisms Unbound – Global Anti-Fascist Feminisms
February 18, 2026
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EST
Online
The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Women, Culture, and Sexuality (GCWS) presents “Feminisms Unbound“, a series of panels addressing feminist concerns, theories, and practices in this contemporary moment. The goal of Feminisms Unbound is to foster conversations and community among Boston-area feminist intellectuals and activists.
The kickoff panel for this year’s Feminisms Unbound series is on the subject of “Global Anti-Fascist Feminisms”. The panel is designed to share organizing strategies and feminist practices across the globe, that have emerged to resist the resurgence and intensification of global authoritarianism today and to build more democratic and liberatory worlds. Panelists include Antonia Carcelen-Estrada (activist, scholar, translator), Cinzia Aruzza (Boston University), Jeanelle Hope (independent scholar), and Sherena Razek (UCLA).
Some of the questions that we expect to address in this series are: How are today’s authoritarian regimes historically linked to previous ones? What is new about them? How has this global authoritarian trend changed feminist organizing? What resources can feminist thought, organizing, and activism offer us to confront the current authoritarian hegemony at the global, but also at the local level? What shape does fascism take in the context in which you are most actively engaged as a feminist thinker? What are the main challenges that you, and your communities, face as feminist organizers against authoritarian rules in your context?
