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The challenge that many South Africans are tackling on is that of the counter narrative. Often, this is a struggle for many people globally – being heard. I often want to run to my hooyo (mom) and abo (dad) and write their stories in fear of a…

How does one even go about speaking of spilt blood? Can words revive and revere? I’m at a loss for words when I think the traumas suffered by oppressed people across the globe. It wasn’t long ago (19 years to be exact), that Black and immigrant…

How does one even go about speaking of spilt blood? Can words revive and revere? I’m at a loss for words when I think the traumas suffered by oppressed people across the globe. It wasn’t long ago (19 years to be exact), that Black and immigrant…

As I have discussed in previous posts, one of my personal projects in Cape Town was to learn as much as I could about the life and work of activist Ray Alexander. Specifically, I wished to find out more about her interest in women’s rights and to…

These photographs were taken on the floor of the District Six Museum. Here, South African writers have written about their home.

In which Cape Town speaks for itself.

“[Apartheid] was a society where we didn’t listen to one another. This stunts the growth of not only the oppressed but also the oppressor.”—Stan Henkeman, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, on the…

These pictures were taken at the Langa Heritage museum, which use to be the old pass office for the Langa Township. One of the many interesting things we discussed in class was how women were involved in the struggle for equality by organizing and…

Before even arriving in South Africa, we were able to work on a couple different projects. Some people worked with Dr. Fosl on archival research, while the other half of us worked on a project called Womanspirit. This is a program is aimed at…

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…

I am writing this on the morning of our township tour. Townships, the settlements where Blacks and Coloureds were forced to move to as a result of Apartheid’s Group Areas Act, may be rows of inadequate government housing or a winding maze of tin…