Adventures
Below are some heart projects that I am exploring across pluriverses of collectives and collaborators...
Feminist approaches to self-and collective defense
Christy is particularly interested in the body as a container of healing, creativity and knowledge. As a Brazilian jiu-jitsu athlete, she is collaborating with women’s rights activists, body movement practitioners, digital security trainers and others to explore what a feminist approach to self-and collective defense could look like, for individual activists and for our movements. Up until now, this work has culminated in:
- A paper entitled, ‘Hacking systems of oppression and pro tecting our vital strengths: A feminist framework for self-defense’
- In-person and online workshops with activists and body practitioners
- A pilot after-school programme entitled, Power of the Body , for young women and girls aged 12-15 years held in Khayelitsha, South Africa.
- Countless inspiring conversations with feminist self-defense instructors, digital security trainers and martial arts practitioners living and working in the global South
Feminist Collective
Christy is part of a global South monitoring and evaluation co nsultancy team that explor es feminist mechanisms for M&E processes. Evolving as a resistance to the reductive and exclusionary practices often applied to this line of work, we conduct research, assessments and evaluations grounded in a feminist ethics and methodology. We have worked with global and regional organisations such as the Count Me In! Consortium and continue to integrate our learnings into current and future projects.