Our-Resource is a website which collects, curates and hosts a variety of resources on Autonomous Resourcing. It has been imagined as a comprehensive online space to exchange ideas around funding, resourcing and building feminist movements.
Our Conceptual Framework: The Autonomous Resourcing Tree
Feminist activists who resource autonomously have been coming together as a community over the last few years and have generated a wealth of ideas around this practice. It was then consolidated in a series of knowledge-building workshops in 2021 with advisors from the movements to build this conceptual framework.
Roots
Roots are the reason we exist. Much like the roots of trees, the reasons behind our actions in autonomous resourcing are not always the most visible, but these political and social values we hold dear are what ground and nourish our movements.
Leaves
There is a diversity of feminist organizing structures, modes of organizing, tactics and methods shared throughout this online platform through our narratives and stories. And much like leaves, they cannot be exhausted, because as long as the spirits of collective love and solidarity lives, there will always be new ways we support each other, however challenging our struggles become.
Fruits
Fruits are the beautiful and powerful stories we tell; they are our proudest achievements in movement-building through autonomous resourcing that combine our political values and our creative tactics. These fruits are shared in our own words through this website. So please continue to explore this space.
Branches
To sustain our movements’ ecosystem, interactions and exchanges among elements that build up connections are key. These connections, like branches, must be nurtured and grounded in our lived realities to ensure the sustainability and safety of our communities, organizations, groups, and individuals.
The Our Resource platform was developed by and for feminist activists and movements, with support from AWID as part of its Resourcing Feminist Movements Intiative’s project on Autonomous Resourcing.
Our Resource is a product of numerous conversations, sharing, and co-creation over the last five years with powerful feminist activists from around the globe. Thank you to those who proactively led and participated in co-creating this knowledge:
- Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani
- Almut Rochowanski
- Angelika Arutyunova
- Ani Hao
- Catherine Healy
- Chayanika Shah
- Cindy Clark
- Daniel Fonkatz
- Eka Imerlishvili
- Fenya Fischler
- Gopika Bashi
- Hakima Abbas
- Inna Michaeli
- Jabari Tiche Tirop-Salat
- Janette Akhilgova
- Joey S Joleen Mataele
- Kamardip Singh
- Kamee Abrahamian
- Kellea Miller
- Lina Isma’il
- Lucia Brenes
- Marija Jakovljević
- Nani Zulminarni
- Nerea Craviotto
- Nicole Farnsworth
- Nino Ugrekhelidze
- Rochelle Jones
- Roula Seghaier
- Rasha Sansur
- Shreya Shah
- Late Dr. Smarajit Jana
- Tenzin Dolker
- Urmila Shrestha
- Verónica Vidal Degiorgis
- Victoria Tesoriero
- Yasmin Che
- Zana Krasniqi
Illustrations:
- Cecilia (“Ceci”)
- Rodriguez Oddone.
Design:
- Studio Ping Pong
Copy:
- Aarthi Parthasarthy
Development:
