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This is another Ask Amy Letter, this time the original letter from a 14 year old girl worried about her weight. This letter is proof that Amy really answered a variety of letters in her nine year stint as "Ask Amy".

Amy Thorton is a woman whom I had the pleasure of meeting and diving deep into the archives of her life housed at the University of Cape Town Jagger Library. For nine years from 2000 to 2009, she functioned as a "Dear Abby" figure, helping folks all…

One of the bigges themes of both the U.S. Social Justice Movements class I took in the fall and this study of comparative history is the idea of looking back to move forward. Many of our social justice movements in the United States have faltered or…

Jan van Riebeeck was an employee of the Dutch East Indian Trading Company who decided to come to South Africa and set up a refreshment stand for explorers and traders coming around the southern most tip of Africa. Incidentally, he didn't leave and is…

This is clearly a picture of a baboon on top of a building. And it looks like its holding the Israeli flag. And while seemingly innocuous, this primate made me think a lot about a frequent topic of conversation with each of the activists we were…

This is a post about boys.

While I certainly did not come here to meet anyone for any type of romantic or otherwise relationship, I also never considered what the complexities of that might be. Back home, as a queer and trans person, dating and…

Something happened to me yesterday and I wish I had the words to describe  the thing inside me that has changed. But what kinds of words can capture raw, human emotion? The toll of struggle? The stench of grayish-white slurry in puddles alongside the…

The ways people are suspicious of one another around here is phenomenal. Not in a good way, just in an absolutely devestating and facinsting way. Everywhere on the street, in Observstory where we are staying, people look at you like you are an…

All of my time in South Africa so far has been spent thinking about conciousness, the mind, and the ability of people to colonize and/or decolonize their thinking. Meaning, why do people in this present moment in South African culture approach the…

My name is Jyler Donovan and I am recently graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies and Pan African Studies. I am most excited about learning how to be a global global citizen! I am excited to…