Interrogating whiteness and building plural coalitions: key steps towards decolonising feminisms in Euskal Herria

This research explores practices to dismantle the colonial structures of power and to fight the struggles of a plural feminist subject that represents Basque society on the road towards decolonising the feminist movement in the Basque Country. It aims to examine the advances of the movement since the 2019 Feminist Conference, the current challenges in terms of interrogating whiteness and the potential futures in building plural coalitions. The analysis draws on 28 semi-structured interviews with racialised local, racialised migrant, and local white women in the territory examined through the Narrative Production Methodology. Findings reveal an erasure of the intermeshed oppressions of migrant and racialised women, and multiple mechanisms of exclusion that deny their agency. Despite the advances in discourse and theoretical reflections, caring and trusting spaces for having uncomfortable discussions, finding common ground, and building coalitions based on mutual recognition, identification, and interdependence are still lacking, as well as decolonial practices through which white feminists share their privileges with racialised comrades and cultivate a feminism liberating for all. This research aims to draw lessons from the experiences of racialised and white feminists to address these absences and seize the opportunities towards radically transforming feminism through a decolonial gaze.