Stories of Girls’ Resistance

A roadmap to revolution(s):

Mapping strategies and tactics across time and place

A roadmap to revolution(s):

Mapping strategies and tactics across time and place

Despite the very different contexts in which girls are living, surviving, resisting, fighting and dreaming, there are striking similarities in the tactics and principles underlying how girls organise, strategise and make common cause with each other. These are perhaps unique to the moment girls enter this space – at a moment of awakening – before they are loaded up with all of our co-opted ways of naming, framing and doing work.

There is also a diversity in how they approach the act of organising with each other, sometimes entering and modelling existing formal structures and sometimes completely reimagining and recreating structures. Their organising is far from stagnant and often closely tied to their own journeys of politicisation. The underlying truth reflected across all that they do – is that girls have a deep capacity to both imagine the world anew and embody what it will take to get there.

The Roadmap

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Embodying what they imagine
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Bravery and determination
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Radical imagination
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Belief in freedom
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Solidarity: The heart of the revolution
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Joy as resistance
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Creativity as strategy and tactic
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Self and collective care
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Intersectional and beyond nation states
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Learning is constant