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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ So, it's like a collective of people whose knowledge, who are, you know, feminists, sisters from the south, and with the sensibility of thinking about power, knowledge dynamics. I think that's beautiful. So, again, when we think about the agency and where transformation sits, of course, anybody can be an agent of change, but I think sometimes we need to note who ends up pushing forward certain conversations. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ Well, I think it's amazing to find people who share some collective passions or, like, intersecting passions. You know, I think the most valuable aspect of this space is the fact that it's interdisciplinary and very diverse in terms of where people are coming from with their own knowledge bases, their own political analysis situations, geographically, linguistically, culturally, et cetera. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ So, I'm here because, obviously, working across the African region means that we work across multiple languages, but also, languages of struggle. And this question of being able to really, interact with and engage with the internet as a space for political consciousness, raising, mobilization, sharing information, documenting, and archive. Archiving is a live one for African feminists in our diversities. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ I'd actually say that a lot of the, like I said, the African feminist work that's been done is offline when it comes to the question of non-colonial languages. When it comes to the question of trying to put African feminisms online and to articulate the way that feminisms happen and the languages we use to describe our work, there have been some efforts there, certainly, but in terms of the workaround language, not so much. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ I think that if we think about regional African feminisms and African feminisms that happen transnationally, most of it happens in English and, to some extent, in French and a little bit in Portuguese. Although the Angolans and Mozambicans would always say that because nobody's bothering to learn their languages, they deal a lot with Brazil. And so, so I mean, we are there online but largely discussing and debating in colonial languages.
And it also means that the internet has been a space where actually African feminism in new generations is flourishing. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ But what's also interesting is that already as we're identifying the kind of visions or the ethical basis upon which we think a decolonized internet would exist, what's interesting to me is for people who've never met each other, we're coming up with a lot of common points, which means that actually, we share a broad sense of direction in terms of where we think this should go. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ So, I'm very happy to see that it's actually this very diverse set of feminists who are actually pushing this question for all of us and creating a space where such a diversity of people can come together to really think again about a vision, but also really concrete ways that we might be able to see it happen. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ And I think it's an area that we need to, again, invest a bit more, in particularly, as I said, because now the new generations of African feminists are very vibrantly active online, but as I said, it's largely in, in colonial languages. ”

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the Whose Knowledge?, Jessica Horn and the need to center languages of struggle from the African continent

“ So, again, there has been some movement in terms of some of the dominant languages, but there's still definitely a need to, I think, empower people who speak those languages to be the people shaping and creating the platforms. ”

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