AWID in Capetown

In four days time, I'll be in Capetown, for the 11th Annual AWID Forum. I'll perform for over 1,500 activists, from women's movements and networks around the world.

I'd expected to be a mass of nerves at this point, as I usually am before big performances. But my opening plenary performance is on Day 2, when the theme is how to build stronger, more powerful and sustainable movements. It's a question I've been exploring, in different ways and different communities, for almost my whole adult life. To have this conversation with leading thinkers, activists, makers of change, from every region of the globe, is a mind-blowing opportunity.

Forget nerves. What rises in me is a warm tide of anticipation, excitement, can't-wait-ery. This is the audience I write for. This audience is the reason I write.