South Feminist Futures

What South Feminist Futures does

South Feminist Futures is a non-profit feminist political education and knowledge-production organization legally registered in Zimbabwe. It serves feminist scholars, activists, organizers, and learners primarily across the Global South by producing and distributing free, open-access educational content on feminist political economy.

The organization's core products are its Political Economy Teach-in Series — a structured curriculum of 34+ sessions — and its Knowledge Hub, a curated multilingual repository housing feminist political-economy materials. Production is anchored by a named team (Director of Political Education Sarah Qadour, plus communications, editorial, and writing roles) and a contributor network of recognized feminist scholars including Dr. Rama Salla Dieng, Nana Abuelsoud, and Liliane Umubyeyi. Content is delivered in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic, and the organization maintains a partnership with Takatoat to extend distribution.

The business model is non-commercial: all programming and knowledge resources are provided free of charge with no pricing, membership fees, or direct monetization disclosed. There are no reported funding rounds, revenue figures, or commercial revenue mechanics in the input. Distribution is via the organization's website and the Knowledge Hub, positioning it as a civil-society knowledge producer rather than a venture or transaction-driven entity.

Name

South Feminist Futures

Legal name

South Feminist Futures

Website

https://southfeministfutures.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

South Feminist Futures is a Zimbabwe-registered non-profit producing free, multilingual feminist political-economy education, including a 34+ session Teach-in Series and a curated Knowledge Hub, for scholars, activists, and learners across the Global South.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Feminist Political Education

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAN)

Keywords

• Feminist political education
• Global south feminism
• Decolonial knowledge production
• Feminist research resources
• Political economy teach-ins

Headquarters

HQ city

Not specified

HQ country

Zimbabwe

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

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B2C

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Services

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Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

South Feminist Futures (SFF) is a non-profit feminist political education and knowledge-production organization that delivers open-access programming for Global South feminists. It runs a Political Economy Teach-in Series of expert-led virtual sessions (at least 34 sessions as of mid-2026), a multilingual Knowledge Hub repository of curated feminist resources, a South Feminist Voices interview series, a collective Manifesto, and themed Reading Lists. All content is offered free of charge through its websites and partner channels.

Product overview

South Feminist Futures is a feminist political education and knowledge production organization offering a platform of interconnected programs and resources. The core offerings include the South Feminist Futures Website serving as the primary digital portal, the South Feminist Knowledge Hub functioning as an open-access repository of Global South feminist resources, and the Political Economy Teach-in Series providing educational sessions on intersectional feminist topics. Supporting offerings include South Feminist Voices (interviews and articles), the South Feminist Manifesto (collective vision document), and curated Reading Lists. These products collectively work toward breaking patriarchal and colonial knowledge hegemony while democratizing and decolonizing knowledge production.

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Brands

• South Feminist Knowledge Hub: An open access and free repository of multi-thematic resources, productions and knowledge materials produced and authored by feminists from the Global South.

Products and services

• Political Economy Teach-in Series
• South Feminist Knowledge Hub
• South Feminist Voices
• South Feminist Manifesto
• Curated Reading Lists

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• TakatoatcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFF and Takatoat are collaborators on feminist imagination and political education initiatives. They co-produced a joint panel session titled 'Imagining and Living Justice in a Feminist Future' on March 31, 2026, drawing speakers from Sudan, Syria, and Lebanon, and also produced a joint reading list titled 'Feminist Imaginaries from the Global South'. Both organizations share a belief in the necessity of politicising feminist organising and building anti-colonial narratives rooted in the Global South. Their collaboration is inspired by two collective feminist imagination projects: 'Voices from a Feminist Future' (Takatoat) and the South Feminist Manifesto (SFF).
• Dr Rama Salla DiengcoreOthersDr Rama Salla Dieng is a central intellectual contributor to SFF, delivering Teach-in #34 ('Feminist Artivism, Memory, and Decolonial Futures in a Fragmented World') and authoring multiple resources published in the South Feminist Knowledge Hub. She is a political scientist, recipient of the 2025 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research, and founding Director of the CINEFEMFEST African Feminist Film, Photo and Research Festival.
• Nana AbuelsoudcoreOthersNana Abuelsoud delivered Teach-in #33 ('Organizing for Rights: Reproductive Justice in Praxis') in May 2026. She is a feminist and population policy researcher in Egypt, member of Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ), Advisory Board member of The A Project in Lebanon, board member of AWID, and member of Mama Cash's participatory grantmaking Community Committee.
• Liliane UmubyeyicoreOthersLiliane Umubyeyi delivered the 'Racial Justice and Reparations' interview (#14 of the Teach-in Series) in July 2024. She is the co-founder and executive director of African Futures Lab, and has previously worked with the UN, International Centre for Transitional Justice, and Lawyers without Borders. She holds dual PhDs in Law and Social Sciences.
• Kruskaya HidalgocoreOthersKruskaya Hidalgo delivered Teach-in #23 ('Feminist Perspectives on the Platform Economy: Women Workers and Unionising') in May 2025. She is a researcher, unionist, and feminist activist, and one of the founders of the Observatorio de Plataformas — a collective of artists, researchers, activists, and digital platform workers who question working conditions in platform economies. She connects platform worker unions across 30 unions from 23 countries.
• Mayada HassanaincoreOthersMayada Hassanain led Teach-in #17 ('International Financial Institutions: Who Holds the Purse?') and participated in a full interview published in Arabic on the role of international financial institutions in Sudan. She is an economist with a Bachelor's from the University of Khartoum and a postgraduate degree in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London, and currently serves as Senior Programme Officer at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
• Dr Walaa AlqaisiyacoreOthersDr Walaa Alqaisiya delivered Teach-in #21 ('Gender, Sex and Genocide: The Imperative of Anti-Imperialist Solidarity') in March 2025. She is a professor of Middle East Studies at Northwest University in China and author of 'Decolonial Queering in Palestine' (Routledge, 2023). She contributes anti-imperialist, decolonial queer feminist perspectives to SFF's programming.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• CREA: CREA is a feminist human rights organization based in the Global South that produces curricula, convenings, and resource libraries on gender, sexuality, and disability. It is comparable to SFF in combining knowledge production, open educational resources, and feminist movement building in the Global South.
• Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ): RESURJ is a transnational feminist activist alliance advancing sexual and reproductive justice from Global South perspectives. It overlaps directly with SFF's Teach-in #33 topic and contributor pool (Nana Abuelsoud), making it a strong thematic peer on reproductive justice programming.
• Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA): AMwA is a pan-African feminist organization working on leadership, knowledge production, and movement building for African women. It is comparable to SFF as a knowledge- and convening-focused African feminist organization and shares the goal of amplifying African feminist scholarship.
• Takatoat: Takatoat is a feminist collective that co-produced the joint panel 'Imagining and Living Justice in a Feminist Future' with SFF and shares the goal of anti-colonial, Global South feminist political education. It is the closest direct peer given the explicit programmatic collaboration and overlapping political imaginary.

Broad incumbents

• Mama Cash: Mama Cash is a leading international feminist grantmaker that funds women, girls, trans, and non-binary activists globally. It overlaps with SFF in ecosystem position (funder and convener of feminist movements from the Global South) and shares key contributors (Nana Abuelsoud sits on Mama Cash's participatory grantmaking Community Committee), making it a strong comparable for movement-building and resource flows.
• African Women's Development Fund (AWDF): AWDF is a pan-African grantmaking and capacity-building fund that supports African women's organizations. It is comparable as a movement infrastructure actor serving a similar audience of African/Global South feminists and convening knowledge and resources.
• Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID): AWID is a global feminist membership organization that produces research, convenings, and resources on feminist political economy and rights. It overlaps directly with SFF on themes such as reproductive justice, debt, and platform economies, and several SFF contributors (e.g., Nana Abuelsoud, Mayada Hassanain) sit on AWID-affiliated bodies, making it the most direct incumbent comparable.

Regional players

• Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights: Urgent Action Fund provides rapid response grants and security resources to women and LGBTQI human rights defenders. While its core function is grantmaking rather than political education, it operates in the same feminist movement infrastructure and competes for similar funder attention as SFF.

Emerging players

• FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund: FRIDA is a global fund that resources young feminist activists, particularly in the Global South. It is comparable to SFF as a Global South-anchored feminist infrastructure actor that supports the same constituency of grassroots feminist organizers and scholars.
• Ikhtyar African Feminist Collective: Ikhtyar is an African feminist collective referenced in SFF contributor biographies as a prior affiliation for several team members. It is comparable as a smaller, Africa-rooted feminist knowledge and organizing space with overlapping intellectual community.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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