Ishtar Lakhani has been working as a feminist, activist and trouble-maker in the field of social justice advocacy for over 15 years. With a Masters degree in Anthropology, her career has ranged from coordinating a radical, feminist advocacy network for survivors of sexual violence (the 1 in 9 Campaign) to revolutionary sandwich making in her founding of Love and Revolution an activist bookstore, sandwich shop and community space to advocating for the rights of sex workers in South Africa as Advocacy and Human Rights Defense manager at the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce.
Currently, Ishtar is a Free(lance) Radical who collaborates with a range of social justice organisations, movements and networks globally, providing support to strengthen their approaches to strategic human rights advocacy. Recently she was named in the BBC’s “Top 100 Women of 2020”. Her true passion lies in creative activism and the experimental melding of fantasy and reality, of art and activism, in an attempt to imagine and enact what a more just world might look like.
Ishtar Lakhani is an alumi of Center for Artistic Activism trainings. She has gone on to train and develop actions with the Center in multiple campaigns.
News about Ishtar
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How South African Sex Workers changed the conversation
Discover how one organization harnessed the power of artistic activism to revolutionize the sex worker movement in South Africa. From fake political campaigns to skeleton bureaucrats, learn how artistic activism can effect policy, shift narratives, and inspire change. Dive…
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Radicalizing the Remote: How to Keep Kicking Butt at a Distance
If you’ve been wondering how to invigorate your advocacy teams, get out creative messages that penetrate through the haze, or collaborate in new ways, all at a distance and online, we have just the thing for you.
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Ishtar Lakhani on BBC 100 Women List
Congratulations to the Center for Artistic Activism’s Ishtar Lakhani, she is included on the BBC’s 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020! Ishtar is an alumni of Center for Artistic Activism programs, and became a…
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Alumni, Ishtar Lakhani, profiled in Maverick Citizen
Center for Artistic Activism alumni and workshop instructor, Ishtar Lakhani, was profiled in the Maverick Citizen. Ishtar is based in South Africa and after participating in our 2015 training, has worked alongside the Center for Artistic Activism on several…
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How to Win #13: Learn from South Africa
While having an autocratic, erratic and narcissistic madman as a president might be new to artistic activists in the US, this is standard operating procedure for activists in other parts of the world. In this webinar we talked with veteran…
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School for Creative Activism Cape Town – Participants Announced
We’re delighted to introduce the participants for our workshop on Campaigns to Support Sex Work Activism, funded by Open Society Foundation and taking place in Cape Town, South Africa THIS VERY WEEK! Say hello to… Dimitri Delibas OSF South Africa…
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