Category: Community Updates
Africa Talks: The Future of African Feminist Activism
The coronavirus pandemic has magnified existing inequalities, particularly along lines of gender. In Africa, like in other regions around the world, containment measures including lockdowns, confinement and drastic reductions in sociability have significantly impacted women. Access to paid work and sustainable livelihoods has been significantly disrupted, rates of domestic violence have increased, and access to…
Webinar – Decolonization and Afro-Feminism
SPEAKER: SYLVIA TAMALE Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, is a professor of Law and a sociologist at Makerere University and a former Dean of its Law Faculty. Her research focuses on gender, law and sexuality, feminist jurisprudence and women in politics. She’s also an award-winning human rights defender for women, sex workers, homosexuals, and refugees. …
South Feminist Futures Festival 2020
The South Feminist Futures Festival is scheduled to take place from December 7 – 11, 2020. The festival will be a week of art, activism, dialogue, reflection and celebration to reclaim a centuries long history of women fight slavery, colonialism, white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, racism and cisheteropatriarchy
Invitation to a virtual event (Webinar)- “Intimacy and Empire: Creating Over-Lapping Diasporas in Postcolonial Nigeria”
Members of the community are invited to attend a virtual event on the topic “Intimacy and Empire: Creating Over-Lapping Diasporas in Postcolonial Nigeria” to be delivered by Judith A. Byfield, Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 12:00noon (GMT) Click on the…
Feministafrica.net is now LIVE!
FEMINISTAFRICA.NETFeminist Africa is pleased to announce the launch of our new website and archive! We are now located at the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies, home to the continental pan-African intellectual tradition since 1961. With re-collectivized pan-continental leadership and renewed editorial governance structures in place, we have embarked on a bold new transgenerational…
African Feminist Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery Statement
Dear Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, Mr. Tidjane Thiam, Mr. Trevor Manuel and Mr. Benkhalfa Abderrahmane, We write this letter to you in your capacities as the Special Envoys that the African Union has mandated to mobilise international support to address the coronavirus pandemic in Africa. We are a constellation of African feminists who…
Call for Manuscripts: SWS Global Concerns Autoethnography Project
Dear SWS Colleagues, Global Partners and Associates: SWS and its Global Partners and Associates are requesting submissions for a co-edited autoethnography publication examining global portrayals of our lives as academics and practitioners in our particular social contexts during this traumatic period of the COVID-19 pandemic. In seeking autoethnographies, we are looking for pieces that are…
Announcement: SWS Global Pandemic Reading Resources/Syllabus
Dear Colleagues and Friends: SWS and its Global Partners and Associates are requesting submissions for a syllabus and reading resources list that explore the impact and implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic from a global, intersectional, and feminist perspective. Submissions can include both academic and non-academic resources and targeted for (1) graduate (2) undergraduate and (3)…