Legacy Series

The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time.

About the episode

In episode 15 part 3, we begin with a little political education as the context of working in women’s rights during a time when, as EJ says, ‘the wheels fell off’ the Zimbabwean economy, before discussing how she wielded – successfully and unsuccessfully – the power held within the major development institution, ActionAid.

Credits

Interviewer:Awino Okech

Interviewee: Everjoice Win

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing, and additional scripting: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde

Legacy Series

The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time.

About episode

In Episode 15 part 2, EJ recounts her rise through Women in Law and Development in Africa – or WILDAF – detailing the advantages and pitfalls of international gatherings in development spaces, recounting her version of how the 16 days of action came to be, reflecting on the comrades lost to HIV/AIDS along the way, and setting the record straight on just who created the strapline ‘women’s rights are human rights’.

Credits

Interviewer:Awino Okech

Interviewee: Everjoice Win

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing, and additional scripting: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde

In episode 16 as FCRJ marks the second anniversary of FCRJ, we share a discussion between Founding Director Professor Awino Okech and Lydia Ayame Hiraide, FCRJ's former post doctoral fellow. They explore the ongoing reversals around racial justice work globally and its meaning for the interventions of institutions such as the FCRJ.

Awino Okech is Professor of Feminist and Security Studies at SOAS, University of London and founding director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice.

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Interviewer: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Interviewee: Awino Okech

Produced by:The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Legacy Series

Welcome to the launch of our legacy series. The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time

About this episode

This inaugural episode is a four-part conversation with Everjoice Win or as she popularly known EJ. Awino Okech talks to EJ over four episodes about her life, feminism and legacy. Episode 15 part 1 is a deep dive into the life, work and legacy of Everjoice Win.

Bio

EJ has been active in feminist and social justice movements in her country, Zimbabwe, the African continent and globally for over 35 years. She has worked extensively from very rooted community-based development programs to national, to regional and global levels. Some of the organisations in which she has held very senior leadership roles include Women’s Action Group-Zimbabwe, the Pan-African network, Women in Law and Development in Africa, (WiLDAF), Oxfam-Canada, and ActionAid International. Most recently she was Executive Director of the Shine Campaign, (now Shine Collab). Besides formal roles EJ volunteers her time on various NGO boards, provides support and accompaniment to leaders in the non-profit sector and their organisations or movements particularly on; strategic thinking, movement building, feminist popular education, feminist leadership, understanding, navigating and transforming power, as well as generating learning and knowledge.   

Everjoice is an alumnus of the first Women’s Leadership Institute held at the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, which conceptualized the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. She is a graduate from the University of Zimbabwe where she studied Economic History. Between 2020 and 2022, Everjoice served as Professor of Practice-Women’s Rights at SOAS University of London. A writer, and social media influencer, EJ contributes to various print and online publications. 

Credits

Interviewer:Awino Okech

Interviewee: Everjoice Win

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing, and additional scripting: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory

In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds.

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In episode 14, Lydia Ayame Hiraide sits down with Nomancotsho Pakade to discuss how decolonial feminism can present and ameliorate gender biases and inequality in relation to reparations. 

Bio

Nomancotsho Pakade is a South African-based researcher published in theoretical and experimental work on gender and sexuality, education, and governance with extensive experience in community mobilisation and advocacy. She has acumen skills in qualitative and statistical analysis, including policy analysis, in-depth ethnography, and institutional studies.  Nomancotsho holds an MA in Research Psychology from the University of Witwatersrand and is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. 

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Interviewee: Nomancotsho Pakade

Interviewer: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing:Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory

In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds.

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In episode 13, Lydia Ayame Hiraide sits down with human rights defender and researcher Majd Hammad to discuss her involvement with: ‘Empowering Voices: Unraveling the Journey of African Migrant Domestic Workers to the Arab World’, a research collaboration between Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya & Ethiopia.

Bio

Ms. Majd Hammad is an esteemed human rights defender and researcher, recognized for over two decades of dedicated expertise in the fields of gender, feminism, and human rights studies. Her deep knowledge in project management, combined with a steadfast commitment to tackling complex issues in labor, development, and humanitarian sectors, has led to substantial contributions in shaping policies and practices. Hammad's work has been consistently driven by a mission to uplift the rights and welfare of refugees and migrant workers, advocating for their dignity and equality. 

Interviewee: Majd Hammad

Interviewer: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory

In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds.

About episode

In episode 12, FCRJ Post-Doc Fellow Lydia Ayame Hiraide sits down with Dr. Lucia Bracco and Luisa Pariachi to discuss their involvement with one of these projects: ‘Women’s symbolic prisons-agencies: a Latin American-Middle Eastern dialogue’, in which they use 'prison' as a visual metaphor for women's symbolic oppressions in everyday life. 

Interviewees: Lucia Bracco and Luisa Pariachi

Interviewer: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing: Almaz Anderson

Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory

In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds.

About episode

In episode 11, Lydia Ayame Hiraide sits down with Dena Arya to discuss her involvement with one of these projects:‘Theatre of Climate Action: Amplifying Youth Voices for Climate Justice in Guadeloupe and South Africa’.

In their conversation, they explore youth agency and climate justice in the context of this research project which uses participatory theatre methods to explore and platform youth climate justice perspectives in South Africa and Guadeloupe.

Credits

Interviewee: Dena Arya

Interviewer: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing: Almaz Anderson

Leadership Series

In episode 10 FCRJ Director Awino Okech speaks to Nyawira Wahito, from Resource Centre for Women and Girls (RCWG). The conversation explores what it means to embody and develop leadership skills and roles, as well as approaches to work and living well.

Nyawira is a Kenyan feminist passionate about investing in the leadership potential and personal transformation of girls and young women in rural Kenya.  Nyawira brings nearly 13 years of experience in the feminist organizing space where she has worked extensively with rural communities around the country. Nyawira’s leadership and advocacy is anchored in the belief that when girls are given space to dream, ideate and be ambitious, they can truly live into their power and transform their lives and those of their communities. She holds a Master’s in Security, Leadership and Society from King’s College London and a Bachelor’s in Sociology and Philosophy from the University of Nairobi. Nyawira is an alumnus of the African Leadership Centre Scholar’s program and the Resource Center for Women and Girls’ (RCWG) Girls’ Empowerment Retreats. She currently serves as the Executive Director at RCWG where she leads a diverse team of young women.

Interviewer: Awino Okech

Interviewee: Nyawira Wahito

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Music: Broken RNB Instrumental by The Audio Way, freesound.org; ⁠⁠⁠Inn Ann⁠⁠⁠ by Daboor; ⁠⁠⁠Snoopy⁠⁠⁠ by Sandy Chamoun

Leadership Series

In episode 9 FCRJ Director Awino Okech speaks to Shuvai Busuman Nyoni from the African Leadership Centre (ALC).

Shuvai Busuman Nyoni is the Executive Director of the African Leadership Centre (ALC), Nairobi, Kenya. She is also a Gender, Peace and Security researcher and practitioner. The ALC is a research and training institution that focuses on raising next generation African leaders, thinkers and practitioners within the peace, security and development sector. The ALC seeks to contribute to Africa’s long term social and economic security and development terrain by training and mentoring the next generation of young African leaders as well as through rigorous research and knowledge generation. Prior to joining the Centre, Shuvai worked as the Director of Interventions and before that Regional Advocacy Specialist for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in Johannesburg South Africa. She has worked extensively with a range of regional and national policy makers, civil society actors and academics in post-conflict and transitional countries on the African continent. Through her work Shuvai has engaged on post-conflict reconstruction, governance, social and economic justice, transitional justice, reconciliation, and national and community healing. 

Interviewer: Awino Okech

Interviewee: Shuvai Busuman Nyoni

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Music: Broken RNB Instrumental by The Audio Way, freesound.org; ⁠⁠Inn Ann⁠⁠ by Daboor; ⁠⁠Snoopy⁠⁠ by Sandy Chamoun