The Eco-Feminist Energy Justice Project — Temwanani Banda, Blantyre, Malawi
I am one of the women this project was built for. The Eco-Feminist Energy Justice project is run by the Get Together Youth Organization, working alongside other civil society groups under the Zingwangwa Youth Network, with funding and support from SHINE Collab. It exists because in Blantyre District, where I live, between 85 and 95 […]
Story of the Gweja Soldier
Mary Joji I am a woman of Lirangwe, and since 2022 I have been an artisanal miner, a gweja soldier, as we are known. Before that, I was searching, thinking hard about how I would build a livelihood with no capital behind me. It was people from Ntcheu who first brought artisanal gold mining to […]
Women, Land and the Struggle for a Just Transition
First Story of the Gweja Soldier — Gladys Makuya I am a widow, and I live with my 8-year-old son. When my husband passed, the responsibility of the household fell on me alone: feeding a child, keeping a roof over our heads, finding school fees. There was no one else to carry this. So, when […]
24 Hours That Made Women’s Invisible Work Visible
Women participating in the Artisanal Mining and Critical Minerals Gathering mapped a full 24 hours of their lives, documenting time spent on mining, farming, childcare, household work, food preparation, community responsibilities and rest. The exercise made visible how livelihoods and unpaid care are intertwined—and why women’s time and care responsibilities matter when designing just transition […]
UNCSW69: Valuing Feminist Knowledge for Climate and Energy Justice
At the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), we reviewed the unfinished promises of the Beijing Platform for Action. Yet global commitments fall short when community-rooted knowledge and gender-disaggregated data are ignored. Feminist energy justice begins with listening to the grassroots. We call for more resources for community-led research and demand that policy […]