![]() ![]() This feminist strain is not part of the mainstream national imagination, but some feminist collectives have nurtured spaces and linkages that challenge universalizing views of feminism and the coloniality of both the West and Java, interrogate the (geo)politics of knowledge production, and connect feminists across the archipelago by foregrounding solidarity that confronts rather than erases difference and borders. While liberal, Islamic, and neoliberal feminist ideas continue to circulate, Paramaditha argues that we are witnessing a new direction of feminism in Indonesia, which she calls the trans-archipelagic decolonial feminist trajectory. ![]() In this lecture, Intan Paramaditha draw on her experience being part of a collective and a larger network of feminist cultural activism in Indonesia. What does Indonesian feminism look like? Scholars interested in post-authoritarian Indonesian public cultures have focused on liberal feminism, a movement centred on individual rights and body autonomy that aligns with Reformasi rhetoric of "freedom of expression," or Islamic feminism, emphasizing on women's struggle for authority within Islamic organisations and its potential to counter the mainstreaming of conservative Islam. Paramaditha has a penchant for stories about people who find themselves stuck, one choice at a time. In ‘The Wandering’, You are the choices that you make, and happy endings are hard to come by. Organizer: Harvard University Asia Center The dubious power of Your red shoes can be read as a comment that an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom. ![]()
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