Women’s Voices: Plural, Varied, Amplified
Martha Mukaiwa – Windhoek, Namibia When post-apocalyptic humans emerge from the radio-active rubble and look back on this year on an iPhone they find in the Covid-speckled dirt, the blacked out social media squares and the influencers posed stonily in front of riot police will attest that 2020 was a year of protest. From the Black Lives Matter movement to #ShutItAllDown and #EndSARS, in the last eleven months, we have… Keep Reading
– Alna Dall Stromeyer Many theories exist that try to explain the root causes of GBSV. Some argue that the perpetrators of GBSV are dysfunctional, angry, psychopathic men: these are the monsters of our society who prey on the weak. The problem with this theory is that it exonerates all the men who might have violent tendencies but who do not have the guts or the opportunity to exercise them…. Keep Reading
– Ndapwa Alweendo It was difficult for me to decide who my imagined reader was when I sat down to write this piece. Do I speak to other black people and possibly just encourage them to relive some of the traumas of whiteness with me? Or do I join the seemingly endless number of black people who repeatedly experience the indignity of justifying their own existence? In deciding what our… Keep Reading
– Ethne Mudge Dear white people – do you know how to be anti-racist? Dear white folks, we aren’t bad people (neither are we good people) for having perpetuated racism our entire lives. All our institutions are built on racism and all of us were socialised into it, but once we know that, we can start to be part of the solution. Everyone’s talking about #blacklivesmatter, but white people like… Keep Reading
