by Jelke Boesten | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog
The past year we have been able to listen to sixty scholars, activists, performers, artists and curators from around the world in three conferences held in London, Lima and Cape Town. About twenty different country contexts were discussed, from Kurdistan to Namibia...
by Jelke Boesten | Apr 7, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorised
Written by Helen Scanlon On 2 April 2018 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela passed away, a woman who personifies so much about the challenges posed by women who enter the public realm of nationalist politics. Her status as the ‘widow’ of Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment...
by Jelke Boesten | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorised
After two successful conferences, this blog by Jelke Boesten and Helen Scanlon briefly outlines where we are with the Gender Justice Memory Network project. Krotoa was a Khoisan child in the mid-seventeenth century when she was enslaved by Jan Van Riebeeck, the Dutch...
by Jelke Boesten | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog
‘It’s happened, I think. It’s finally happened. It’s like the end of a book. […] Anyway, what can we do about it, it is not like I haven’t lived through this in my mind over and over, as if I haven’t been through the pain or fear...
by Jelke Boesten | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Jelke Boesten explores the continuing relevance of The Handmaid’s Tale and its relationship to gender and memory. Picture: Anna and Elena Balbusso I read Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale (1985) when I was pregnant. I do not recommend doing so; any anxieties of aliens...
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