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Africa’s 21st Century Feminist Struggles: Terrains, Formations and Politics”

Feminist Africa’s latest Issue themed “ Africa’s 21st Century Feminist Struggles: Terrains, Formations and Politics”

Lumumba Protest

Statement Re: Lumumba Protest A coalition of LGBTIQA+ organisations and UCT staff and students will protest against homophobia, transphobia and homophobic and transphobic hate speech on the Plaza outside Sarah Baartman Hall on 24 July 2023

Heritage Day: Restore the ‘critical knowledge’ of the ausis

Bam-Hutchison shared these stories at a cultural event hosted recently by the UCT Irma Stern Museum, a joint improvisational music and spoken word piece with internationally celebrated visual artist and musician Garth Erasmus, using traditional Khoi an

MPhil in Islam, Gender and Sexuality

A new, exciting and challenging Masters degree in Islam, Gender and Sexuality is offered jointly between the Department for the Study of Religions and the Department for African Feminist Studies at the University of Cape Town.

AGI & AFS statement on VC Phakeng’s tweet on 18 May 2022

The Department of African Feminist Studies and the African Gender Institute have been following the Twitter commentary on the experiences of a UCT member who has laid a criminal case against a UCT Professor for rape. On the night of May 18th, VC Phaken

Call for submissions, Feminist Africa: African Women Workers in a Changing World

Department of African Feminist Studies - New Masters Course in Gender and Transformation

The Department of African Feminist Studies offers a Masters level coursework programme in Gender and Transformation. The programme is rooted in questions about continental histories and contemporary politics and the ways in which diverse feminist

African Gender Institute/Gender Studies position on the e-media University of Cape Town talk, “What does Science say about LGBTQA ”, hosted by VC Phakeng in conversation with Dr. Kgomotso Mathabe, a medical practitioner and urologist

As a team of researchers, writers, teachers, and activists located within the Humanities Faculty at UCT, we are deeply disappointed by the calibre of the information, assumptions, and ideas profiled by the talk. We are simultaneously ou

Istraight Lendaba - Mmatshilo Tumelo Motsei

Virtual book Launch: Istraight Lendaba and Other Stories by Mmatshilo Tumelo Motsei

Join AGI for the virtual launch of Istraight Lendaba and Other Stories. The short story collection is written by author,

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