ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the transformative potential of feminist activist practices of solidarity and resistance through embodied research. The strategies of contemporary activists in the transnational feminist movement – particularly after the ‘feminist spring’ of 2018 – involve resistance against systemic gender oppression and its intersections, but they also incorporate care, healing, and self-development, information and affirmation, belonging and believing, empowerment and endearment as daily – and often subtle – practices of this resistance. From ‘tuppersex’ sessions to WhatsApp support groups, these contemporary activist practices constitute the feminist solidarity alternatives to trauma, violence, and burnout. As a disabled sexual violence survivor, an LGBTQ+ feminist activist, and an immigrant in my context of research, I argue that attuning to liminal affects entailed in positionalities and embodied experiences of multi-layered violence is key to accessing meaningful knowledges generated at the margins. Through autoethnography and embodied practices, I look at these aspects of connectivity and bonding in solidarity as sources generating knowledge where the personal and the political are in constant dialogue, offering insights into transformative alternatives for liveable lives.
