by Phoebe Martin | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Events, Uncategorised
On International Women’s Day we celebrated the launch of the exhibition ‘Visualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives’. The exhibition presented the (audio)visual work of seven women academics at different stages of their career at King’s College London, all working...
by Phoebe Martin | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog, Events
“A scream doesn’t have to be loud. The strongest screams are the ones we hear within ourselves, the ones that twist our organs up and run like a fist through our intestines and ribcages, the ones that have no voice. Yet it comforts me, because I know I am alive.” On...
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...
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