We are a far way from realising our lofty ideals of gender equality, but we must keep working towards them
Posts tagged as “patriarchy”
African feminism is engaged in the project to recoup indigenous knowledge systems and to salvage identities that were destabilised by foreign incursions
I am a white, Afrikaans-speaking queer, the antithesis of what my family and church stood for. My identity crisis led to my identity formation
Proposed changes to the Traditional Courts Bill to remove the possibility to “opt out” and use magistrate’s courts instead are probably unconstitutional, and definitely play into the hands of traditional leaders instead of their communities
A rebuttal against the #MostMenAreTrash, #NotAllMen and basically any other alteration of the #MenAreTrash movement
The stereotyping of women as caring, soft-hearted mothers is a dangerous ideological construct
Although Beyoncé’s visuals are spectacularly beautiful, we are allowed to criticise ‘Black is King’ as reducing Africa for the gaze of the capitalist West
By Refiloe Makama & Sipho Dlamini Violence has remained a longstanding characteristic of the country. Gender-based violence (or more accurately: violence perpetuated by men against…
I have written about the position of women in our patriarchal society from various perspectives on this site several times before – in the context…