Alisha's Field Journal

I am a second year graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville. For the last two years I have worked with the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research and, as a result have become very interested in racial…

We met with the Institute for Justice and reconciliation in Worcester on May 16th and it was an incredible experience. The meeting was for representatives from communities all over South Africa in order to discuss action steps needed after the farm…

We have used the weekends mostly for sight-seeing and though that isn’t the main reason we traveled to South Africa, I think it is a valuable part of the experience. It has helped me understand this country better and become even more aware of the…

On Saturday night we were able to go to dinner at a jazz club (so amazing!) and while we were eating, we got to talking with our driver about education in the townships where he lives. It was one of the topics that was important in Mother to Mother,…

Some of us were lucky enough to have the chance to interview some of the members of Womanspirit. Briefly, I should explain what this group is. Womanspirit is a program that serves refugee women and girls living in exile in Cape Town, South Africa.…

I am hoping that someone else writes a little more about the history of District Six which we studied in class and learned more about with our visit to the District Six Museum. This post is dedicated to one of my favorite features of the museum--the…

As we began working on this project, it occured to me that there may be U.S. citizens who visit this site but are uncertain about some of the history of apartheid in South Africa. This worry was confirmed when I got home and sat down to dinner with a…