This session considers what it means to organize for gender rights in global contexts in the 21st century during a pandemic. The speakers feature diverse geographic and disciplinary perspectives, addressing key issues related to gendered power and difference in Africa, South Asia, and among minoritized people in the United States, including the gendered nature of care labor, rights-based activism in the face of rising global authoritarianisms, and the transnational reach of global protest.

SPEAKERS
Nighat Dad, executive director, Digital Rights Foundation (Pakistan)

Lyn Ossome, senior research specialist and feminist economics lead, Institute for Economic Justice (South Africa)

Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, University of Pittsburgh

Moderated by Durba Mitra, assistant professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Radcliffe gratefully acknowledges the Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Dean’s Leadership Fund for Academic Ventures, which is supporting this event.

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0:00 Introduction
7:53 Nighat Dad
16:18 Lyn Ossome
29:28 Jules Gill-Peterson
38:32 Conversation and Audience Q&A