Global movement for Black lives: A conversation between Awino Okech and Shereen Essof

This conversation reflects on the importance of transnational Black solidarity in a global moment where COVID-19 pandemic has exposed structural inequalities that sustain death and movement for lives focussed attention anti-Blackness. We reflect legacies past contemporary Black, Indigenous, People Colour activism role this played strengthening efforts to deal with colonialism, imperialism patriarchy. In highlighting how anti-Blackness is sustained across different institutions - from academy social movements, we centre feminist movements’ building radical visions equitable transformative worlds through focus nexus between patriarchy, capitalism white supremacy. argue are geared at disrupting transforming current power structures advance justice create liberatory futures. A central part these futures lies collective rooted political values solidarity, hope joy.