From Strategy Circles on feminist leadership, tech futures, disability justice and more, to performances by Shabnam Virmani and ALOK, Day 3 had it all!
The closing plenary grounded us in where we’ve been and where we’re going.
And we ended in pure joy, with a celebration and a performance by the CREA team.
Thank you to every organiser, facilitator, artist and participant. You made this what it was!
#ThinkCREA #recon2025
Day 2 is done!
From a powerful plenary on accountability to teach-ins on disability, migration and resistance.
Workshops sparked conversations on care, pleasure and memory.
Performances, book launches and walkthroughs kept the energy moving.
Lightning talks pushed us toward tech, justice, archives and feminist futures.
Curated spaces, films and steady conversations carried us through the day.
RETHINK. REWORK. RECLAIM.
#ThinkCREA #recon2025
Day 1 brought together many formats–plenaries, teach-ins, workshops, lightning talks, films, performances and curated spaces, all exploring gender, data, movements, desire, language, disability, care, digital rights, community and more.
From conversations that sparked new ideas to hands-on sessions that built skills, the day was full of learning, connection and collaboration. Diverse perspectives challenged the way we think and reminded us why this community exists: to share knowledge, build solidarity and to RETHINK, REWORK and RECLAIM the world together.
#ThinkCREA #recon2025
We are hiring! CREA is looking for an Archivist & Knowledge Documentation Coordinator.
For more details and application, click on the link in bio.
#ThinkCREA #feministjobs
We are hiring! CREA is looking for a Coordinator – Communications.
For more details and application, click on the link in bio.
#ThinkCREA #feministjobs
8. 𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗨𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗦 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠𝗢𝗦
𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘰 𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘭 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦 𝘺 𝘚𝘶𝘳 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭.
Queremos daros las gracias por todo lo compartido… 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘀 que hicieron de estos Encuentros un espacio esperanzador. 🌍🧏🏽♀️
Os adelantamos unas fotos que dan cuenta de lo que vivimos. 📸✨
Muy pronto os compartiremos las grabaciones y todos los contenidos para seguir reflexionando juntas. 🎥💥
¡Esto continúa! 💛
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8. 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠𝗢 𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗞
𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘢𝘬, 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘢 𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘻𝘪𝘢𝘬 𝘐𝘱𝘢𝘳 𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘰 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘬.
Eskerrak eman nahi dizkizuegu elkarbanatutako guztiagatik… Topaketa hauek espazio itxaropentsu bihurtu zituzten 𝗵𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘇𝗶𝗮𝗸. 🌍🧏🏽♀️
Bizitakoaren berri ematen duten argazki batzuk aurreratzen dizkizuegu. 📸✨
Laster grabazioak eta eduki guztiak partekatuko dizkizuegu elkarrekin hausnartzen jarraitzeko. 🎥💥
Jarraitzen dugu! 💛
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8. 𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠𝗦
𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩.
We’d like to thank you for everything you’ve shared… 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 that made these gatherings a source of hope. 🌍🧏🏽♀️
Here are a few photos to give you a glimpse of what we experienced. 📸✨
We’ll be sharing the recordings and all the content with you very soon so we can continue reflecting on this together. 🎥💥
It's not over yet! 💛
She begins her shift before dawn - sweeping streets, cleaning latrines, no contract, no protective gear, no onsite sanitation. Her story is one thread in a much larger pattern of who gets pushed to the bottom of India's sanitation economy, and why.
As the Dalit History Month just passed, we keep asking ourselves: what has actually changed?
Caste remains the most invisible load-bearing structure in India's sanitation workforce. 97% of manual scavengers are Dalit. Within this workforce, Dalit women are concentrated in the most informal, lowest-paid, physically demanding roles - with no contracts, no PPE, no legal recourse. The sector's safety systems were built around a male worker as the default. Women were never centred in this design.
But caste doesn't operate alone. At CREA, we explore how caste intersects with gender identity, people with disability, and transgender, to shape who accesses safe sanitation, and who is made invisible by the systems meant to deliver it.
When designing programmes for women, do you centre caste inclusion, or is it an afterthought?
The Centre for Inclusive WASH at CREA explores how caste, gender identity, disability, and class together shape sanitation labour and access in India, from policy gaps to lived realities.
Click on the link in bio to read more!
Image credit: Unsplash, Steve Rybka.
#ThinkCREA #DalitHistoryMonth #WASH #GenderAndWASH #CasteAndSanitation #DalitWomen #InclusiveWASH #TransRights #DisabilityInclusion #CREA
A transgender Self Help Group (SHG) in Cuttack is running a 60 KLD faecal sludge treatment plant.
Not as a beneficiary.
Not as a token inclusion.
As the people contracted and accountable for keeping it running.
So why is this still an exception?
Transgender persons in India, many from marginalised caste communities, are routinely locked out of formal sanitation systems. Not just as workers, but as users, and as anyone whose voice shapes how these systems are designed.
The infrastructure doesn't account for them. The workplaces don't have safe facilities for them. And the policy, despite the rights it has formally recognised, hasn't caught up in practice.
What Cuttack did was simple, and rare: it didn't treat inclusion as an afterthought. A community that is normally pushed to the margins of the formal economy was trained, contracted, and trusted with critical urban infrastructure. And they delivered.
If you work in this sector, in any city, at any level, we would like to know: what's the real block? Is it procurement rules, political will, capacity, or something that doesn't even have a name yet?
In 2024, EY put together a knowledge and policy brief documenting exactly how this was done in Cuttack. You will find this at the Center for Inclusive WASH. Worth a read if you're thinking about what replication actually takes.
Click on the link in bio to read more!
#ThinkCREA #InclusiveWASH #Sanitation #TransRights #FSSM #UrbanSanitation #Cuttack
At the 8th Encounters on Fundamentalisms organized by @medicusmundigipuzkoa , CREA brought a sharp Global South lens to conversations on tech, power, and accountability.
On the panel “Misogyny and Algorithmic Discrimination: META’s Responsibilities in the Global South,” Priya Das, CREA’s Director – Programs and Innovation, showed how platform design is not neutral. It shapes who is visible, who is silenced, and who is made vulnerable.
From AI-generated sexualized deepfakes and “nudify” apps targeting women, to content moderation systems that under-protect marginalized communities while over-policing their speech, these are not glitches, but patterns. AI does not invent misogyny or racism; it reproduces and scales them.
CREA’s session pushed this further by asking: - Whose data is used? - Whose realities are erased? - Who defines harm and who gets protected?
The discussion moved beyond the technical dimensions of online discrimination and examined how digital systems can reproduce, intensify and obscure structural violence.
By grounding digital harms in lived realities, the conversation connected algorithmic discrimination to broader structures of misogyny, racism, and colonial power. It reaffirmed that digital justice is inseparable from feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial struggles.
#ThinkCREA
29 women. 5 days. Countless firsts.
We recently concluded the Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute (Hindi), 7–11 April, 2026, New Delhi.
From across states and marginalized communities, women arrived carrying stories of courage shaped by pushing against norms and resisting patriarchal systems within and beyond their homes.
Many, having been married very young, are working to break this cycle.
Some negotiated with their families to be there.
Some travelled alone for the first time.
Some stayed away from home for the first time.
Some returned to daughters, who now see new possibilities for themselves.
The fights they spoke of are not just for rights, but for fundamental access to knowledge, safety, self-determination, and education.
This year, the curriculum expanded to center the disability movement and leadership, feminist technology, and wider conversations on gender.
In sarees, lehengas, salwar kurtas, and hijabs, they are reshaping what feminist leadership looks like. Not urban, not abstract, but grounded in everyday struggles for access and dignity. Their stories make the “personal is political” a daily reality and show that feminist leadership takes many forms.
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We're heading to RightsCon 2026!
Join us for our workshop "Coded Harm: Unpacking AI and Technology-Facilitated GBV", a workshop that looks at how violence manifests in AI-mediated environments, what is recognized, and what remains invisible.
The session will also move beyond the usual responses to ask: what can actually be done, where the work needs to happen, and what forms of agency still exist in shaping, reframing, or restructuring how AI operates in relation to gender-based violence.
📍Room 3 | Mulungushi International Conference Centre (MICC), Lusaka, Zambia
🗓 May 8 | 10:15–11:15 AM
More updates coming your way soon. Stay tuned!
If you’re around, come think with us.
#RightsCon2026 #ThinkCREA
Update: We are now in Room 212. See you there!
Join us at #WD2026!
CREA, alongside partners Women Deliver, UN Human Rights (OHCHR), IPPF, ILGA World, Amnesty, Women Enabled International, Noor, and Fos Feminista, will be hosting a concurrent session:
Solidarity in Action – Bridging Divides for Collective Resistance
CREA’s Executive Director – Global, Geetanjali Misra, will co-facilitate and speak in the session exploring feminist faultlines and why building solidarity is critical to counter anti-rights and anti-gender pushbacks that exploit these divisions.
Will you be at #WD2026 too? Let us know in the comments and come join us!
#ThinkCREA #WD2026
