Activist or Advocate, What Hat do You Wear?

Book cover of "A is for Activist" by Innosanto Nagara

“Are you an activist or an advocate?”, we all had to answer this question at a certain point in our life. How do we identify? Is it important to make this differentiation? And how does this influence our methods of engagements? We've attempted to answer all these questions in this week's podcast with Tanya Lokot for Ukraine and Nighat Dad from Pakistan. Let us know what you think!

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  • […] Last February I was privileged to be part of the Global Voices Exchange gathering in Marseille and I spent an intense week with an amazing group of powerful women from the global south. Coming from different backgrounds and contexts we explored together different formats to produce content that will help us and many other activists/ advocates like us to succeed in building campaigns and movements. Personally, there was something inspiring about this exchange, something about bringing women from different countries, different experiences, who fight a number of different adversaries, nevertheless have this understanding that our fight for justice and equality in many ways are similar whether we are an activist or an advocate. […]

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