Gender Justice Memory Blog
Our blog contains news and events related to our project, as well as blog posts discussing relevant issues.
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...
The Rise and Fall of the Mother of the Nation: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
7 April 2018Blog, 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...
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...
‘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...
Siúan Póirtéir discusses how perpetrators are portrayed in the mini-series Liar and Big Little Lies...
Siúan Póirtéir compares approaches to memorialising queerness in two of London's 2017 exhibits...
Sandra Barba engages with the issue of gender-based violence and the idea of art as counter-narrative in Frida Kahlo's work...
Jelke Boesten explores the continuing relevance of The Handmaid's Tale and its relationship to gender and memory....
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Siúan Póirtéir looks at how memory is stored and shared through women's bodies in Imogen Butler-Cole's Foreign Body...
Phoebe Martin investigates poet Carmen Ollé's relationship with feminism and activism in Peru...
Alexandra Hibbett reviews the play Manta y Vilca against the backdrop of the concurrent trials addressing rape during Peru's armed conflict...