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Session1: Tumhara Saath Milne Se… 40 years of feminist solidarity-building Through a conversation with founder members and board members, this session recalls the contexts in which women’s groups like Jagori began their work and what feminist solidarity meant in practice. What were the intentional and unintentional strategies over the years? What have we learnt about the strength and fragility of feminist solidarity building? What is hidden and what is the unsaid in the hard work that comprises feminist solidarity building?

Session 2: Aaya Naarivad Aaya… Forging solidarities through collective knowledge production The search for women’s voices and making visible their realities motivated many kinds of efforts at learning and producing knowledge, often with those affected themselves. From action research to fact-finding missions to ‘safety audits’ with a wide variety of groups, the process of feminist knowledge production has been critical to understanding each other, and co-creating our agendas for change.

Session 3: Iraade Kar Buland… Language as a vehicle of solidarity In many instances, language brought us together, transformed us, and occasionally divided us too. The words we have intentionally challenged or changed, or claimed, have driven feminist movements to look at issues with new perspectives. This panel examines the interrelationship between language and feminist politics. It also tries to open up the issues that emerge with digital activism today – presenting opportunities to transcend geographical boundaries, languages and silos but also creating new challenges.

Session 4: Dariya Ki Kasam… Changing forms of collective action Collective action, especially on issues of patriarchal violence, continues to be a defining feature of feminist movements. Solidarities are created through collective action, from small acts to the large. This panel highlights the changing form that collective action has taken over time. These have ranged from street plays, public protests, and mobilization to change laws, to trying to influence policies and partnerships and networks that put their combined force into action for social change.

As we all know, there has been a spike in violence against women and girls that is one maj