By Kerry Frizelle While I was lecturing, a female student arrived late*. As she made her way to a seat, another student cat-called her (a…
Posts tagged as “women”
I am ashamed to be a South African man today. How have we fallen so far as a nation? From being celebrated globally as the…
Jay Naidoo’s recent article ‘I thought I was a feminist – until I heard their stories’ requires a response. Whilst Naidoo’s article starts out with…
I raise this question more as a kind of self-reflection than a hard-and-fast recipe of sorts. The latter cannot be supplied by anyone, for the…
During this period of encouraging the “proper” ethical behaviour towards women and children on the part of men, I have listened to a number of…
As we creep towards August the question of women’s empowerment will come to the fore the same way young people become the flavour of the…
The technological revolution that has given us television, the internet and almost inexhaustible sources of image consumption has also, concomitantly, given viewers and internet users…
How the human species – Gyna and Homo sapiens (thinking woman and man), supposedly – have come down in the world. It does not take…
This state of the nation is one that asks you, for a few moments, to consider some information about the majority of South Africans. Some…
Once I was a girl, then I was somewhere in between, and now I am an adult woman. What that means for me is not…