Spotlight on Feminist Movement Building School

We are in conversation with participants from our second Feminist Movement Builders School convened in partnership with Just Associates in from August 2024-August 2025.

About the episode

🎙️ Content note: this episode discusses LGBTQ+ rights and community organising in contexts of risk.

In this episode, Nadia Asri speaks with Auma Maureen, a feminist organiser and artist, whose community-based project uses public art to archive queer life and resistance in rural Uganda.

Through the Feminist Movement Builders School, Maureen led a year-long feminist action research process that culminated in a powerful community mural — a living, collective archive of queer stories, painted in dialogue with the people who inspired it.

This conversation explores the power of art, storytelling, and imagination in contexts where visibility can be dangerous — and how creative practices become acts of care, resistance, and community-building.

👉🏿 Explore Maureen’s mural, created as part of the Movement Builders School in Kenya, on our website.

Bio

Auma Maureen is a rural feminist activist and Programmes Director at Twilight Support Initiative in Western Uganda. She advocates for structurally excluded people through grassroots organizing, access to justice, economic empowerment, health, and creative advocacy. Maureen believes in collective healing, storytelling, and transformative justice rooted in care and community resilience.

Credits

Interviewee: Auma Maureen

Interviewer: Nadia Asri

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde

Music: Broken by AudioWay, freesound.org.