Ep 8. Feminist Foreign Policy

In this week’s episode I spoke to co-founder and U.K Executive Director of Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), Marissa Conway, to dissect what a feminist foreign policy is and why we need it. CFFP is a research and advocacy organisation that has become a critical voice in the space, working with governments and NGOs to transform feminist foreign policy into practice. 

A feminist foreign policy may seem like a big and complicated topic to get into but at the heart of it is a framework for understanding who has power, who doesn’t and how we can change that in big policy decisions that affect everyone. Often that means unpicking or unlearning what has come before to move forward in a more equitable way. 

Everything from how we police our borders and trade agreements right down to what individual’s buy or which healthcare they can have access to is influenced by global politics and we therefore need a feminist lens in it to ensure marginalised communities are supported and heard. 

Visions for the future

🌎Moving towards a borderless world

📖Fully understanding our colonial history

🗣Civil society having a voice in the development of foreign policy

What you can do 

✋Push back on ‘watered down’ versions of ‘state feminism’

🛠 Use feminism as a tool in your everyday life

👉Check out the work of CFFP: https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/