African Feminism Taking a Cultural Turn

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The Challenges of Feminism: Gender, Ethics and Responsible Academic Freedom i…

Feminist theory and ethics have enormous potentials to transform and energize the discourse on academic freedom and social responsibility. As a theory of knowledge and an intellectual practice, fem…

Doing Beauty as African Feminists: A Conversation between Aleya Kassam, Fatma…

Four feminists from different parts of the continent converse, electronically, about their own beauty practices: Aleya Kassam (33, Kenya); Fatma Emam (33, Egypt); Valérie Bah (29, Benin and Haiti)…

Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part 2

Full disclosure: I had a serious crush on King and Malcolm X back in the day. I was infatuated by their Black radical voice and political courage. As a high school teen in a predominantly white and…

Crimes and Corrections: Bride Burners, Corrective Rapists, and Other Black Mi…

“Saying these attackers must rot in jail is not good enough. We need the death penalty because we have frequent reports of lesbians being attacked and gang-raped and these dogs roam around freely…

Steampunk Practices: Time, Tactility, and a Racial Politics of Touch

Steampunk has been defined in a multitude of ways. As a humorous riff on cyberpunk, steampunk was a tongue-in-cheek proposition in 1987 by the science fiction author K. W. Jeter as a name for his o…

Women in Zimbabwe: Postindependence Struggles

Before the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) came power in early 1980, its leaders repeatedly emphasized the party's commitment to improving the position of women in independent Zimbabwe. "For…

Cutting across Imperial Feminisms toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities

Photography, not only by imperial men but also by imperial women, has played a significant role in portraying the Muslim woman as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies. The legacy of colon…

Using Focus Groups to Explore the Underrepresentation of Female-Identified Un…

This paper is part of a larger project designed to examine and ameliorate the underrepresentation of female-identified students in the philosophy department at Elon University. Here, we provide a d…

The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in …

This thesis investigates the gendered dynamics of dictatorship in The Gambia by exploring the impact of state sanctioned violence on women during former President Yahya Jammeh’s twenty-two years …