Episode 3 Weavers Forum. Intergenerational Roundtable & Collective Harvest
Day 1 Part 2In this episode, I reflect on an intergenerational conversation at the Weavers Forum 2026 exploring African feminist memory, political economy and our collective futures. We gathered the threads of wisdom from generations before us while asking what we need to carry forward, what we need to challenge, and what new pathways we can create.The conversation explored feminist memory, agency, inclusion, accountability, the politics of silence, the professionalisation of gender politics and the importance of documenting our movements and histories.We also turned the feminist gaze inward, asking how we sometimes reproduce the very patriarchal behaviours we seek to dismantle. through silence, exclusion, harmful narratives and the ways we treat one another.At the heart of the conversation was a reminder that the personal is political, but so is how we hold one another's stories, how we critique each other's work and how we build collective knowledge.We also explored economic sovereignty and why it must be central to feminist organising and our vision for the future.This episode is ultimately a reflection on memory, accountability, intergenerational knowledge and the responsibility to weave differently.We inherit the threads.We add our own and then we pass the weaving on.
