Feminist Resource Directory

Below is a list of resources on Feminist Leadership, including in context of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice in the social impact sector. We will continually update the list. If you have or know a resource you would like to share, please email us at hello@fairsharewl.org.

Feminist Leadership

• Oxfam Feminist Principles
• ActionAid’s Ten Principles of Feminist Leadership
• Feminist Leadership for Social Transformation: Clearing the Conceptual Cloud by Srilatha Batliwala for CREA (2011)
• Achieving Transformative Feminist Leadership: A Toolkit for Organisations and Movements by Srilatha Batliwala and Michel Friedman for CREA (2014)
• Transformative and Feminist Leadership for Women’s Rights, by Shawna Wakefield for Oxfam (2017)
• Practicing Shared Leadership: the AWID Experience by AWID (November 2018)
• Opinion: Why feminist leadership is essential to achieve gender equality by Malayah Harper, Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen (2020)
• Feminist Leadership: Key Definitions (Toolkit) by We Rise/JASS Southern Africa
• We are Feminist Leaders (online program) by Leila Billing and Natalie Brook (2020-present)
  
• Exploring women’s leadership in 5 INGOs by Bond and WILD Action Research (2021)
• The Master’s Toolkits Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House curated by IWDA (2022)

Feminist Leadership and COVID-19

• Resetting Normal: Gender, Intersectionality and Leadership by Platform (April 2021)
• Paying attention to women’s needs and leadership will strengthen COVID-19 response by UN Women (March 19, 2020)
• What does feminist leadership look like in a pandemic? by Leila Billing (March 21,2020)
• COVID-19 responses: Why feminist leadership matters in a crisis by Elise Stephenson and Susan Harris Rimmer (March 31,2020)
• OPINION: Why we need women’s leadership in the COVID-19 response by Geeta Rao Gupta and Jeremy Farrar (April 1, 2020)
• Fighting COVID-19 With One Hand Tied Behind Our Backs? by  Roopa Dhatt,  Ann Keeling and  Toyin Saraki (April 3, 2020)
• Women’s Resilience Is Saving the World by Sady Doyle (April 16, 2020)
• COVID-19 Reaffirms The Need For A Feminist Leadership Model by Krishna Hemaraj for Feminism in India (April 24, 2020)
• Applying Feminist Leadership Principles to Working from Home in times of COVID-19 by Sharanya Sekaram, COFEM – The Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (April 24, 2020)
• Off the back burner: diverse and gender-inclusive decision-making for COVID-19 response and recovery by Sulzhan Bali Devi Sridhar, Roopa Dhatt, Arush Lal, Amina Jama, Kim Van Daalen, Gender and COVID-19 Working Group (May 7, 2020)

Feminist Leadership and Anti-Racism

• Feminist Leadership: What’s Privilege Got to do With it? by Leila Billing (June 4, 2020)
• Interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw: Rising Against Racism, Supporting Black Female Leadership, And Building An Equitable World by Marianne Schnall for Forbes Women (June 15, 2020)
• Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists by Time Wise (June 16, 2020)
• How to be anti-racist in aid by Stephanie Kimou, Marie-Rose Romain Murphy, Naomi Tulay-Solanke and Arbie Baguios (June 17, 2020)
• Time to dismantle racism in international development by Lena Bheeroo, Leila Billing, Eliza-Helen Ampomah, Pontso Mafethe, Alan Lally-Francis (June 17, 2020)
• Beyond lip service: Tackling racism in your development organisation by Lauen Reese (June 17, 2020)