Who we are
At Feminist Futures, we envision a world where everyone is free and supported to be and express who they truly are and participate equally in the joy of co-creation.
We believe that every transformation first begins in our expansive imagination. Our mission is to support feminists of diverse walks of life from all around the world to reclaim and re-ignite the power of imagining, often limited by systems of exclusion and oppression.
We hold safe and inclusive spaces, so we can bring our full selves to co-create. We play with futures and foresight methods, and include the body, art, intuition, and creativity as key elements of our workshops and training, so that we can access and share our internal worlds with each other and expand our dreams and desires beyond what we already know.
And we anchor our journeys in the present, because it is in the present that we will begin the feminist transformations we are so eager to see in the world. Then, we give them shapes, colours, and contours through beautiful products and exciting stories to inspire others.
The more the collective consciousness is nourished by our dreams and desires, the more irresistible it becomes to transform our collective living reality into feminist futures.
Founder
Thays Prado
I'm a storyteller, journalist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker with almost twenty years of professional experience. I have a Communications Bachelor's degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, and a Professional Screenwriting degree from UCLA, in the United States.
Almost a decade ago, my deep commitment to women's and girls' rights and gender equality set me on a journey to become a gender specialist, with a Master's in Gender, Media and Culture from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I worked for UN Women at national, regional and global levels, for the BBC Media Action, Women Win, and the Centre for Sport and Human Rights as programme manager and senior gender advisor.
I have run storytelling workshops with hundreds of adolescent girls from historically marginalized communities in Brazil, and women refugees living in temporary reception centres. In my search for tools to help them move beyond retelling trauma and reclaim their power to imagine the future, I stepped into the futures and foresight field.
I found in the combination of feminist principles, storytelling techniques and futures methods a powerful resource to activate people's imaginations and help them envision unknown possibilities of feminist (= intersectional, decolonial, regenerative, just, equal, transformative) futures. And to find pathways that we can start walking together, towards these wonderful futures.