African Feminisms

Collaboration between #ArtOnOurMind & #UCAPI

[Pumla Dineo Gqola, PhD @feminist_rogue]

The 2023 Afems @afemsconference honoured @AmaAtaAidoo - planned long before any of us knew she would cross over. The keynotes began with reflections on Aidoo legacy or specific work, we had plenary on Aidoo and hooks, and so on. I hope she smiled from the ancestral realm.

[Pumla Dineo Gqola, PhD @feminist_rogue]

Buhle Siwendu and the incredible crossword she made for #Afems2023

[Pumla Dineo Gqola, PhD @feminist_rogue]

The unparalleled joy of listening to Prof Dina Ligaga’s @dinoleegz Keynote at #Afems. My admiration of her scholarship and how much I think with it can’t be overstated. I read her all the time and have missed listening to her.

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I don’t wanna lie, it’s quite exciting to also have men being a part of our conversation and agendas.

Kudzai Barure dissecting the perceptions of the ‘the unfaithful Lover’ and in/vulnerability in the “Ztorie Bhuku” blog

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Our most favourite, honourable member of the Afrifems delegation @feminist_rogue starting us off with her keynote on Creative Theorisation and the Post-Apartheid Feminist imagination

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Hey guys!

We come baaack…
Day 2 of #Afems2023 !!!

Today we have a little less presentations but they pack as much punch!!

Let’s go!

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A little ad-break game

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This is after Simone Peters spoke about the level of silencing of PhD students in academia

It is however disappointing to hear and trace the similar experiences of epistemic violence here

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It’s so nice to hear fellow scholars who are speaking around similar matters and experiences:
Abongile speaks about the experiences of black women doctoral candidates in academia, how the moments of intersection in their identity consistently places them in marginalised positions

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We are joined by Simone Peters, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Corrine Knowles, Linda Mensah and Mathe Ntsekhe who will be speaking on Epistemically Violence

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That debilitates our abilities to also congregate in ways that will allow us to change systems of oppression

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Kharnita Mohamed compels us to think about how we understand Death, Disability and Debility. They speak about how there is a hegemony of disability; How some conditions refuse to be recognised as a disability and how that perpetuates violence

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of history.

#Afems2023

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Nomphumelelo Babeli remarks on the importance of shifting the lens of history on women as to not perpetuate a single narrative of the male hero. We cannot continue to capture women as mere auxiliaries to men’s lives. We have to trace their narratives too as to give a full story

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Kananelo Tsueno, presenting on how Mengitse’s ‘The Shadow King’ novel works to invert and question the roles and experiences of women in war, and potentially the greater social experience of the lives of women

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We’re talking about Writing lives

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We are joined by Simone Peters, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Corrine Knowles, Linda Mensah and Mathe Ntsekhe who will be speaking on Epistemically Violence

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Dina Ligaga congregates ideas on how #vexmoney is a mode of survival for women

#Afems2023

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of silencing them. But in claiming our sexualities, we refuse for our bodies to be made into a site of war.

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Dina thinks through Millie Odhiambo, and how she has managed to hijack the controversies around her, as a form of resistance. How she has used her agency for pleasure as a site of patriarchal refusal, bringing to light how in politics, men will use women’s sexuality as a form

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We open the first day with Dina Ligaga, who joins us yet again to offer her brilliant keynote. This year on ‘Rethinking African Women’s practices of Refusal in Selected Online Cultures’