Fatou Sow (DAWN Board) offers her perspective on secularism and politics as an African feminist living in a Muslim-majority country. She is followed by Sonia Corrêa (DAWN Board) with expert analysis on the anti-gender campaign waged by religious fundamentalisms across the world. Peggy Antrobus (DAWN’s former General Coordinator) connects religious fundamentalism and neoliberalism in an ingenious way. Zenebework Tadesse (former DAWN Board member) highlights the interconnectedness of religious movements globally in their efforts to curtail women’s rights. She is followed by Kumudini Samuel (DAWN Executive Committee) with an illuminating critique of Buddhism and how it has been leveraged politically in often quite violent ways.

In this series of videos, we invite you to experience what DAWN’s analysis looks like, presented live at an international meeting. We join forces with partners and contributors from other organisations to think and discuss contemporary issues such as corporate capture, religious extremism, biopolitics and the climate crisis.

DAWN owes its sustained activism throughout the years to all the great women who have committed their time, strength, and expertise to build critical South analyses of global issues. Strategically located as a feminist network within the paradoxical spaces opened by globalisation, DAWN engages with other networks in its advocacy for gender, economic and ecological justice as well as sustainable and democratic development. The meeting where this video was captured is an example of this process.