Towards a Feminist Consciousness is a pan-African queer feminist col- lective founded in 2017 as a safe and liberating space to discuss, theorise, and organise around issues of feminism and liberation, deconstructing them in light of our contexts where systems of oppression intersect: colonialism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, capitalism, racism, and exile
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Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa by Naminata Diabete. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020.
“At the time when I was naked, I felt so powerful… the power even to hit a policeman…” (43). Naminata Diabate in Naked Agency interrogates expressions of resistance that women engage in across Western, Eastern, Southern, and Central Africa and beyond. This resistance, predicated on defiant disrobing, exposure, and shaming, she terms “naked agency”. Diabate…
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology:A Perspective From the Global South, edited by Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana, and Karl von Holdt. Public Sociology series. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022.
The book looks at the long tradition of critical engagement in research done over the last forty years at the Society,Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), a research institute with a long history of working with movements and communities across South Africa, doing what it calls critical engagement. According to the book’s editors, critical engagement is…
For Sethunya and the Legacy She Left Us:
For Feminist Africa, a pan-African Journal and knowledge community for research, dialogue, and strategy, Sethunya was more than a colleague. She was part of the first cohort of Associate Editors who played a crucial role in strengthening the journal’s capacity and solidarity. Her vision and commitment were instrumental in shaping the current phase of Feminist Africa. At the time of her passing, she was co-editing an important forthcoming Issue on “Decolonising Play”—a project that reimagined play not as a mere pastime, but as a powerful form of resistance, a learning tool, and a method of healing.