Tell us about the project! What are you going to do?

We are going to hold three workshops in different countries, bringing together researchers and activists to focus on the future of feminism. The first meeting is in Copenhagen on 26-28 August. It’s going to be really exciting!

What do you want to achieve?

The image of feminist movements in the Nordic countries is outdated. For example, there is a perception that there is good cooperation with the states, but that image is actually based on how things were in the 1970s and 1980s. We want to learn more about the cooperation between feminist movements and states, but also about the cooperation between feminist movements in different Nordic countries. It seems that certain groups, such as Sami feminists, have more Nordic cooperation than others, which is interesting.

What challenges do feminist movements in the Nordic region face?

– We don’t have an answer to that yet! We’ll see what comes up at our workshops. Some overarching themes that I think will be raised are the financial crisis, the refugee issue and sexual rights. These are important issues in our time.

You will have a special focus on the intersection between gender and other grounds for discrimination. Why is that important?

– We know that it is crucial to how activists view their feminist movements. We try to have a broad range of participants in our workshops in order to include different perspectives. There is Sami feminism, anti-racist feminism, transfeminism, queer feminism and so on – and perspective matters.

How do you disseminate the project’s results?

– We have a website where we talk about the project, and we researchers will write about the results. We also encourage activists to take the discussion back to their groups and continue the conversation.