4th World Social Forum

India 2004

I N F O R M
Sunila Abeysekera and Bina Srinivasan

Feminist Dialogues offer an opportunity to bring together disparate and sometimes contentious views on some critical challenges that confront us today. It creates an autonomous space for us as feminists from around the world to reflect on the inadequacies of our present frameworks of understanding in the light of the backlash that is emerging from a range of fundamentalist and conservative arenas.Through a collective process we may develop nuanced analyses and strategies that focus on building up sustainable transnational feminist solidarities taking into account the diversities among us based on differences in location, identity and context. Given our experiences and knowledge of the multiple consequences of globalization on women’s dignity and rights, in a world that is increasingly defined by physical and metaphysical borders, we seek to create a vision of shared political agendas that allow for collective expressions of feminist resistances that will go beyond these Dialogues.