Trauma & Forgiveness

Trauma, Forgiveness and Reconciliation Studies at the University of the Free State is led by Senior Research Professor; Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.

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Please join us for our end-of-year event on Wed 30 November.
9:30 at LG8, EMS Building,UFS
15:00 at Rehearsal Room, UFS Drama Dept

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Please join us for the opening of the Sue Williamson art exhibition "No More Fairy Tales" on 18 August at 7pm. #UFS

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@_IJR_ What does it mean to be human post Historical Trauma? Prof Pumla GM will be presenting a memorial lecture at Uppsala University

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Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela to present the Claude Ake Memorial Lecture from Uppsala University in Sweden https://t.co/WbAqHZTL6p

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Her memoir Mighty be Our Powers https://t.co/bXsSo97tMV, and film #PraytheDevilBacktoHell https://t.co/eEzeTwTZ5o

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#LeymahGbowee 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner speaks at Uppsala University on how women stopped Liberian war. Story chronicled in her memoir.

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The IJR is looking for researchers. Are you interested in historical #trauma? #SouthAfrica @UFS_TraumaFR recruiting: http://t.co/GXt6S1myOa

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The IJR and @UFS_TraumaFR are planning a big research project on #trauma in #SouthAfrica. Want to help? http://t.co/GXt6S1myOa

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Read more http://t.co/AJ9YYccXPz

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Nadine Lake, Director of Gender Studies at UFS. She is a guest lecturer at UPPSALA University.

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But lesbian’s agency found in literary texts (e.g. Nkunzi Zanele Nkabinde) and activism through visual arts (e.g. Zanele Muholi), she said.

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“Newspaper reports of ‘corrective rape’ give more space to perpetrators’ misogynist statements and take away lesbian victims’ agency.”

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Quoted Pres JZ statement. Same sex marriages "disgrace to nation and God.” His apology: statement not “condemnation of gays and lesbians"

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Referred to moralistic trend in public discourse on homosexuality in South Africa, which is considered “unAfrican, unChristian, unnatural”

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Government’s response to the problem of rape and murder of Black lesbians came only after international outcry.

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She spoke about a campaign led by Gugulethu based LGBTI activist, Ndumi Funda which went global, collecting more than 150,000 signatures!

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“Lack of support for gay and lesbian individuals and their families. Families ostracized, and pressure from communities that they conform.”

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“Low level of priority given by government to issues affecting sexual minorities.”

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Nadine Lake of UFS presents on:“Corrective rapes” - Black Lesbians and the Struggle to Belong in South Africa.

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“Yet what to do with unfinished business of irreparable grief in the face of loss and poverty that black South Africans continue to suffer?