Practices of Love and Care in the Women’s Advocacy Network, Northern Uganda
摘要
Fatuma has been an intimate part of, and observed, the everyday lives and ongoing advocacy of the Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) since it began under a mango tree next to her family home as a child. The Network was founded to advocate for reparations and justice for women in post-conflict northern Uganda, in particular for the thousands of girls and women abducted and forced into marriage by rebels, and who returned years—even decades—later with children. The leadership of WAN is composed of survivors, and Fatuma is one of their children who just completed law school. Erin, a UBC professor of global affairs, has been devoted to WAN since its founding, regularly collaborating on research and advocacy projects with its leadership. In this chapter, the co-authors outline the history and mandate of WAN, offer reflections on structural barriers members encounter in the everyday, and discuss the profound ways acts of love and care between members sustains and nourishing them, which in turn, makes the work of WAN possible.