SELF Academy 2024, Delhi

The SELF Academy empowers young women from sanitation worker families to break intergenerational caste and gender barriers through education, leadership, and skill development. By fostering awareness on gender, sexuality, digital security, and livelihoods, it builds confidence, critical thinking, and agency, enabling participants to envision equality and pursue independent, dignified futures.

What you’ll find in this report

  • Insights into CREA’s approach to feminist leadership through the SELF Academy’s focus on sports, expression, leadership, and freedom as pathways to empowerment
  • Exploration of gender, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and pleasure, with sessions that helped participants recognise and question social norms and power relations
  • Dialogues on caste, gender, and dignity, linking historical and social movements to the lived experiences of young women from sanitation worker families
  • Practical learning in communication, digital literacy, and public narrative to build confidence and leadership skills among participants
  • Exposure to digital gender norms, access to public spaces, and vocational training opportunities through collaborations with NSDC and Azad Foundation
  • Reflections on aspirations, negotiation skills, and pathways toward economic independence and social mobility for young women participants

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