Storytelling and being disruptive

Day 3 11am 2 hours English

What are the innovative ways of story telling that captures and ground feminist knowledge? How is feminist ways of knowing and being practiced, sustained and shared?

The Pacific Feminist Fund – proudly Pacific, feminist, and independent – is based in the Pacific and led by feminists in the region. It is the Va’a that is guided by the ebbs and flows of the women’s and feminist movement across the Pacific’s expansive ocean-scape. It is driven by the knowledge that is encoded in the stories and the struggles of the feminist movement, drawing regional and international attention to needs and opportunities often overlooked by conventional funders. As a women’s fund, one of our key strategies is exploring and cultivating feminist ways of working in governance, organizational development, influencing and grantmaking accompaniment practices to nourish pacific ways of being, knowing and doing.

As a feminist fund, we interrogate power and disrupt the traditional ways of funding, and grantmaking as a way of being. We build networks, movements and partnerships that are rooted in mutual, trust-based, and accountable relationships. So how do we know that the disruptions and the processes that we learn and unlearn is contributing to movement building. How do we ensure that this knowledge, those changes, that power is honored and preserved for generations of feminists to come, and that the practice, and that way of being is sustained?