Every woman is a chameleon; she changes her colour to suit the situation; she adjusts and adapts to face the pressing challenges. She wears a different face but the essence of who she is remains the same. That’s how we have to be as young feminists fighting on multiple fronts and living and working in the world (www.jassblog.org/2010/11/i-am-chameleon-young-feminist-in.htm)
The quotation comes from a publically accessible blog created within JASS Southern Africa (Just Associates, an international community of popular educators, activists and writers dedicated to feminist political engagement at a number of levels); the blog features inputs from a global range of young women activists.
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Editorial
Researching sexuality with young women: Southern Africa
– by Jane Bennett and Hope Chigudu
Features
Travels in “fashionable” sexuality research: Thoughts from home
– by Jane Bennett
Thinking Women’s Worlds
– by Jill Bradbury and Peace Kiguwa, with Ayanda Khumalo, Mabogoshi Matlala, Hlengiwe Mchunu, Daphney Mogopudi and Zandile Ngubeni
Mapping sexualities and sexual body politics on University of Botswana Campus: A feminist action research approach
– by Sethunya. T. Mosime, Pholoko Ntshwarang and Godisang Mookodi
Embodying the Learning Space: Is it okay if I bring my sexuality to class?
– by Mary Hames
Profiles
Women Crossing the Line
– by Tanja Bosch and Susan Holland-Muter
Strengthening Research Capacity in Africa: Gender, sexuality and politics with a strategic focus on the lives of young women
– by Naomi Wekwete and Charity Mayeruke
Action research on gender-based violence at the University of Namibia: Results and methodological reflections
– by Lucy Edwards-Jauch
Standpoints
The politics of being “young”: is a “youth” category really necessary for “development”?
– by Rishita Nandigiri
Reflections on my Journey towards Identity in the African Diaspora
– by Simukai Chigudu
“Won’t nobody even try to reach her mind…”
– by Athenkosi Sopitshi
In Conversation
Jane Bennett speaks with Shereen Essof: “And they are fierce!”