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Pakistan's Feminist Wave: A Panel

Three prominent Pakistani feminist activists convene with Associate Editor Nur Nasreen Ibrahim in the wake of the Motorway Incident in 2020.

Zoya Rehman

· Amna Chaudhry

· Tooba Syed

After the motorway rape case in September 2020, SAAG convened a panel of prominent feminist activists to discuss why Pakistan has seen growing violence against women and marginalized communities, and what movement-building and strategies they are involved in at a particularly charged moment in Pakistani feminist activism.

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Panel

Pakistan

Feminist Organizing

Women Democratic Front

Motorway Incident

Body Politics

Women's Action Forum (WAF)

Awami Workers Party

Public Space

Gender Violence

Girls at Dhabas

Khwaja Siras

Nirbhaya

Movement Organization

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement

Internationalist Perspective

Postcolonial Feminist Theory

Contradiction

Movement Strategy

Aurat March

ZOYA REHMAN is a feminist organiser, lawyer, and independent researcher-writer based in Islamabad.

AMNA CHAUDHRY is a writer and activist based in Lahore. She also teaches creative writing and writes the newsletterThis Is The Mod Squad, which covers feminism and ethics in the fashion industry.

Tooba Syed is a grassroots political organizer and gender researcher. She has been organising for over a decade with grassroots movements of peasants, urban working class, students and women. She is a Founding Member and currently Secretary of Information and Publishing of Women Democratic Front and a member of the Awami Workers Party, Punjab. She teaches at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.