{"id":4725,"date":"2025-12-01T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:16:16","slug":"afro-nordic-feminism-theorising-from-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettop.guru\/wordpress\/afro-nordic-feminism-theorising-from-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro Nordic Feminism \u2013 Theorising from our lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Afro Nordic Feminism is an emerging Black feminist project that centers on the experiences, knowledge, communities, and social justice organizing of people of African descent living in the Nordic Region. In this episode we discuss the approach with Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge Diallo, a Fulani, Norwegian and Danish postdoctoral researcher and facilitator of ‘black study’\u2014a non-disciplinary, collaborative, embodied mode of knowledge creation among Black diaspora Europeans. Drawing on her co-written book chapter with Rahwa Yohaness ‘Theorising from our lives: A Black Nordic feminist approach,’ the conversation explores how Afro Nordic feminism engages with activism, collective organization and academia. We also discuss the politics and ethics of knowledge production, as well as issues with US cultural imperialism in a Nordic context.<\/span><\/p>\n

CONTENT NOTE: During the episode, host Sebastian introduces a discussion on the politics of abolishing whiteness as a racial category within anti-fascist movements. This represents the host’s independent theoretical engagement and is not derived from Diallo’s work or the book chapter under discussion.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Links:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Join Oda-Kange and her colleagues in black study in Amsterdam at the Black Feminist Summer School 2026: @black_feminist_summer on Instagram or website: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1z2lwP7g9_B4hJv2lBpmaTEwtMFXEjiyd6FQjtP7plWo\/edit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Visit the open source Toward Refusal Archive: https:\/\/towardrefusal.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Literature for further reading:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Acharya, Maya, & Muasya, Gabriella I. (2023). Sensible Ruptures: Towards Embodied and Relational Ways of Knowing. Kvinder, K\u00f8n & Forskning, 36(2), 29\u201345. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7146\/kkf.v36i2.138090<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

DCN x Marronage (2020). Vil vil mere end at overleve: Opg\u00f8r med en antisort verden. <\/span>Egen udgivelse. <\/span><\/p>\n

Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge. (2023). Joining in black study. Knowledge creation and black feminist critique alongside African-Norwegian youth. Doctoral dissertation. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. https:\/\/ntnuopen.ntnu.no\/ntnu-xmlui\/handle\/11250\/3104885<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge; Friborg, Nico Miskow. <\/span>(2021) Subverting the white cis gaze: Toward a pedagogy of discomfort, accountability and care in the anthropology classroom. Teaching Anthropology, 10(4): 17-35. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22582\/ta.v10i4.622<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hunter, Elizabeth. (2021). Diasporiske perspektiver p\u00e5 racialiseringens kolonialitet i Danmark. Periskop 25 (2021): Sorthed.
https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7146\/periskop.v2021i25.128472<\/a>
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Kollektiv Omsorg: Kelekay, Jasmine; Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge; Sawyer, Lena. (2025). Notes on collective care as black feminist praxis within, outside, and against the academic industrial machine. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. Volume 12, 2025, 101873 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssaho.2025.101873<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kollektiv Omsorg: Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge; Kelekay, Jasmine; Sawyer, Lena; Abdullahi, Maimuna. (2023) Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 22(1):180\u2013203. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/15366936-10220546<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The River & Fire Collective; Barnett-Naghshineh, Olivia; Pattathu, Antony; Diallo, Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge; Friborg, Nico Miskow; Hammana, Zouhair; van den Berg, Lisette; Camufingo, Angelo; Klinkert, Victoria; Judge, Andrew (Mkomose); Chaudhuri-Brill, Shukti; Fukuzawa, Sherry; Abrahams, Nasihaa; Ferrier, Jonathan. (2021) The Fires Within Us and the Rivers We Form. Teaching Anthropology, 10(4): 92-109. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22582\/ta.v10i4.627<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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