Is Feminism a Good Word?

Sisonke Msimang is an Australian author and writer of two books, Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela: A Biography of Survival. She has written a number of essays and articles for the New York Times, Al Jazeera and the Guardian. She was the director of the Perth Writers Festival and has interviewed dozens of authors. She teaches the art and craft of storytelling, both written and oral, with a focus on biography and memoir.

Sisonke Msimang adalah seorang penulis asal Australia dan penulis dua buku, Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, dan The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela: A Biography of Survival. Ia telah menulis sejumlah esai dan artikel untuk New York Times, Al Jazeera, dan Guardian. Ia pernah menjabat sebagai direktur Perth Writers Festival dan telah mewawancarai puluhan penulis. Ia mengajar seni dan keterampilan bertutur cerita, baik secara tertulis maupun lisan, dengan fokus pada biografi dan memoar.

Kadek Sonia Piscayanti is the Indonesian Founder and Director of the Singaraja Literary Festival. She also lectures in literature at the English Language Education programme, Ganesha University of Education, Singaraja. She also founded Komunitas Mahima and Mahima Institute Indonesia, an educational and arts and culture institution in North Bali. Her works, including short stories, prose and poetry, plays and essays, have been published in national and international media.

Kadek Sonia Piscayanti adalah pendiri dan direktur Singaraja Literary Festival. Ia juga menjadi dosen sastra di program studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Singaraja. Ia juga mendirikan Komunitas Mahima dan Mahima Institute Indonesia, sebuah lembaga pendidikan serta seni dan budaya di Bali Utara. Karya-karyanya, termasuk cerpen, prosa dan puisi, naskah drama, serta esai, telah dimuat di berbagai media nasional dan internasional.

Zainah Anwar is a Malaysian women's rights activist and Co-founder of two ground-breaking women's groups that engage with Islam from a rights perspective to promote equality and justice for women in Muslim contexts, and to challenge the ways state and non-state actors abuse religion to justify discrimination against women. In 1987, she co-founded Sisters in Islam in Malaysia and became its founding Executive Director. In 2009, she co-founded Musawah, the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, serving as its founding Executive Director until 2021, and now chairs its Board. Zainah has worked as a journalist, researcher, columnist, and senior programme officer in the Political Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. She is the author of two books, Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia: Dakwah Among the Students and Legacy of Honour, a biography of three generations of political leadership.

Zainah Anwar adalah seorang aktivis hak-hak perempuan asal Malaysia dan salah satu pendiri dua kelompok perempuan yang inovatif, yang mengkaji Islam dari perspektif hak asasi untuk mendorong kesetaraan dan keadilan bagi perempuan dalam konteks masyarakat Muslim, serta menantang cara negara dan aktor non-negara menyalahgunakan agama untuk membenarkan diskriminasi terhadap perempuan. Pada tahun 1987, ia turut mendirikan Sisters in Islam di Malaysia dan menjadi Direktur Eksekutif pendirinya. Pada tahun 2009, ia turut mendirikan Musawah, gerakan global untuk kesetaraan dan keadilan dalam keluarga Muslim, dan menjabat sebagai Direktur Eksekutif pendirinya hingga tahun 2021, kemudian menjadi Ketua Dewan hingga saat ini. Zainah pernah bekerja sebagai jurnalis, peneliti, kolumnis, dan pejabat program senior di Divisi Urusan Politik Sekretariat Persemakmuran (Commonwealth Secretariat) di London. Ia adalah penulis dua buku, Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia: Dakwah Among the Students dan Legacy of Honour, sebuah biografi tiga generasi kepemimpinan politik.