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In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Lena Penšek speaks with Roula Seghaier about growing into feminism intuitively and understanding ecofeminism through lived realities of militarization, migration, and community memory.
Roula reflects on how feminist consciousness often begins as a feeling — a quiet refusal of injustice — before it expands into collective struggle.
From that intuition, feminism becomes a way of reading systems of power and everyday life.
Together, Lena and Roula explore how militarized borders, forced migration, and extractive systems disproportionately shape women’s lives across the Mediterranean. They also discuss how these realities are connected to imperial histories and current forms of inequality.
From ancestral memory to transnational solidarity, this conversation shows that shifting narratives requires trust, vulnerability, and deep listening. At its core, the episode reminds us that in a world shaped by imperialism and capitalism, building relationships becomes an act of resistance — and also an act of hope.
Roula Seghaier (interviewee) is a Tunisian interdisciplinary writer and organizer working on migrant rights, labor justice, and intersectional feminism. She is currently based in New York City and serves as International Coordinator of the Women in Migration Network.
Lena Penšek (interviewer) is a Slovenian activist and feminist currently based in Barcelona. She organizes at the intersection of climate and social justice, transnational organizing, degrowth, solidarity, and feminism.
Voices Across Waters, a podcast series 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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