On the 18th May, this Takhayyul conference will examine the ways in which feminist imagination is changing the face of the Global South, by challenging gendered political structures, legal systems, and development trajectories.

With Fatemeh Sadeghi as convenor, joining co-convenors Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Yuan He, and Burcu Kalpaklioglu, we grapple with some of the big questions facing feminists in this space: What are the prospects that feminists in the Global South offer for addressing democratic, social, epistemological, cultural, and political relations? How do feminists in the Global South imagine a more egalitarian future for themselves and the younger generations, and how do they build solidarity networks and future collaboration? What are the backlashes and responses to gender equality demands? How do feminists deal with them?