When Sethunya walked into a room, the light changed. Not simply because of the way in
which the people already there tended to greet her uproariously, with joy and welcome,
but because of the energies she embodied: beautiful, fight-back, engaged and
extraordinary energies, energies which encompassed everybody, energies that were not
afraid.
The African Gender Institute first met Dr. Sethunya Tshepo Mosime when she agreed,
generously, to work with us in a project called (then) the Young Women’s Leadership
Project. It was a project which aimed to work with young women in SADC-university
spaces to build and ground feminist, practical and creative activist research work in
university zones. Where universities overtly applauded academic and disembodied
knowledge-making, the YWL took seriously the embodied gendered, sexual, reproductive
and contextualized imaginations of young women, and tried to generate solidarities,
insights, and interventions.
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