25th April 2022
“No Ubuntu in the maternity ward”: An autobiographical analysis of obstetric violence in a public hospital’s maternity ward [1] By Pfarelo Matsila Introduction On 12 November […]
23rd November 2021
Critical Reflections on Feminist Contributions to Understanding Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships: Arguments for Post-Structural Feminism by Justice Medzani Introductory remarks and background This […]
18th October 2021
The Cake and the Couch: South Africa’s (in)visible bodies and disobedient messaging during the ‘anti-Zuma arrest’ protests by Tinashe Mawere Introduction: The ‘anti-Zuma arrest’ protests and […]
21st September 2021
2021. SADC Model Law on Gender-Based Violence. An Information Pack compiled by Pfarelo Matsila, Tinashe Mawere and Justice Medzani (Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, University […]
8th September 2021
Resisting bisexual erasure: A reflection note By Pfarelo Matsila Bisexual erasure is defined as the cultural de-legitimation of bisexuality as an intelligible sexual identity (Khuzwayo and […]
23rd August 2021
Missing by Dipontseng Kheo At the beginning of September 2020, my Aunt’s nine-year-old went missing. She was playing outside when a man wearing blue work overalls […]
18th August 2021
The Erecting of Nehanda by Tinashe Mawere Please note: This is part of a longer draft paper “In search of a curved Nehanda” in which I […]
27th July 2021
“Bekezela” (“Perseverance”): A double-edged sword By Pfarelo Matsila Introduction Many women generally, but particularly in the context of matrimony, have mothers, grandmothers and/or aunts who inspire […]
28th June 2021
The Zimbabwean National Heroine: (Re)reading Nationalism, Gender and Sexuality by Tinashe Mawere Introduction: Zimbabwean nationalism and gendered identities Broadly, the literature of nations and nationalism neglects […]
