Long after empires disappeared from maps, many of the systems they built continue to shape our lives, our laws, and even the way we imagine freedom. 

 

In the first episode of Across Oceans, host Maha Al Mawla sits down with Daniella Téllez del Valle and Roxana Hernández to explore how colonial histories continue to shape gender norms, legal systems, feminist organizing and sexual and reproductive health and rights across Southwest Asia, North Africa and Latin America. 

 

Because solidarity doesn't begin with having identical experiences. 

It begins by recognizing that the systems we resist are deeply connected.