The Sawaba Fellowship is accepting applications for its 2026 cohort. Specifically, this intersectional research program helps activists and thinkers scale their impact through discourse and knowledge production. Consequently, selected fellows work directly with a community of practitioners to deploy strategies for decolonial feminist futures.
Program Overview This is an intellectual and activist residency program. Therefore, it is ideal for researchers, journalists, and organizers who need dedicated space to serve intersectional movements. By joining, you get access to a living stipend and a collaborative ecosystem of changemakers.
Key Benefits Participants receive high-value academic and financial support. Specifically, the benefits include:
- Stipend: A financial stipend to support focused reflection and research.
- Community: Space to engage in deep, experience-based discourse with global peers.
- Output: Support for knowledge production, writing, and artistic expression on key decolonial topics.
Eligibility Criteria To qualify, an applicant must be a thinker, artist, or community organizer. Crucially, you must bring lived experience and a commitment to intersectional social justice.
- Profile: Open to researchers, practitioners, activists, writers, and journalists.
- Focus: Must be deeply engaged in topics related to decoloniality and feminist futures.
- Mindset: Must be eager to engage in collaborative reflection and knowledge sharing.
Application Process
- Deadline: April 24, 2026.
- Submission: Apply via the Sawaba Fellowship application link.
- Requirements: Portfolio of past work, project proposal, and motivation letter.
