Beschreibung
Abstract
This presentation offers insight into the work of maiz, an autonomous centre by and for migrant women and a self-organised collective that has been active in Linz since 1994. Rooted in an anti-racist and transfeminist perspective, maiz’s work is committed to improving the living conditions of migrant women* in Austria by creating spaces of resistance, collective care, political education, and collective imagination toward transformation. maiz feminist practices are grounded in daily experiences with migrant women, sex workers, trans and gender-diverse people, Muslim women, Black and women of colour — those who sustain much of the world’s care and cleaning work while remaining systematically invisible and marginalised by intersecting systems of oppression. These lived realities underpin our critique of the colonial roots and racialized systems that structure labour regimes, migration policies and gender-based violence. At the same time, we confront the persistence of bourgeois and white feminisms that reproduce inequality in order to maintain privilege, often silencing, appropriating or weaponizing racialized and migrant women’s struggles.
Despite contradictions and manufactured scarcity, we move forward through practices of solidarity built and sustained on purposeful struggle and collective responsibility from which we nurture dreams of collective liberation. This demands radical, life-affirming practices that reclaim imagination, tenderness, bodies, languages, and ways of knowing.
About the speaker
Letícia Carneiro (she/her - Brazil) was born and raised in Brazil. As a privileged child in a country of contradictions, she studied social communication and law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), later earning a Master's in Philosophy of Law. In Brazil, she worked as a lawyer and researcher before moving to Austria in 2018. Since 2016, she has been mothering twins while unlearning hegemony and cultivating hope and generosity. She joined maiz in 2019, a space that has since shaped her understanding of relationships, justice, and solidarity. At maiz, Letícia is part of the sex & work area as well as the management team.
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Dorith Weber
Referat Genderforschung
01/4277/18452
dorith.weber(at)univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Montag, 02. März 2026, 16:04
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 05. März 2026, 09:38