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In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Simona Getova speaks with Noe Diaferia about feminist awakening, collective grief, and the revolutionary power of relationships.
Noe shares how the public naming of femicide as systemic patriarchal violence in Italy became a turning point in their activism. This process led to the creation of a grassroots feminist movement rooted in collective resistance.
From that experience, grief became more than personal pain. It became a shared political practice.
Together, Simona and Noe reflect on grief ceremonies as collective healing practices. They also explore how community-building directly challenges capitalist individualism.
Drawing on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s idea of the danger of a single story, they discuss why storytelling is central to ecofeminist struggle. In particular, they show how breaking dominant narratives creates space for dignity, complexity, and solidarity across the Mediterranean.
Noe Diaferia (interviewee) is a transfeminist activist from Southern Italy. They are active in the nonviolent civil resistance movement Bruciamo Tutto, advocating for radical systemic change and social justice.
Simona Getova (interviewer) is an intersectional decolonial feminist organizer, facilitator, and educator from Macedonia, currently based in Barcelona. She is Head of Operations at Research & Degrowth and researcher at Pompeu Fabra University.
This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative. It uses a chain-interview format to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles.
Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures.
Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre. Find out more at degrowth.org.
Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds.
Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at efectocolibri.com/en/
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