Dear Beloved Heirs of a Flourishing Future, With hearts brimming, we inscribe this letter to celebrate a world born from a Feminist Climate Justice—a living reality in your time, not mere imagination. Close your eyes, dear ones, and let these words paint a vivid portrait of the world you shall inherit, a world nurtured by our unwavering feminist commitment. Dear ones. Capitalism and Colonialism Overthrown: We rejoice, for capitalism and colonialism are consigned to history’s registers. Governments from the global majority countries are no longer entrapped by colonial masters, nor are communiti ..read more

In May 2023, Johanna Cecilia Keramin Beukes (37) was shot in public in a church by her husband, who was a police officer at the time. Delin Nawases (25) was reportedly stabbed multiple times all over her body and had her throat slit by her boyfriend in August. At 53, Frieda Kashawa’s body was reportedly covered with grass and set on fire, burnt beyond recognition. The Namibian police data shows that about 5 427 Gender-based Violence-related cases were reported in the 2019/20 financial year and 2 643 in 2020/2021, the majority of which were perpetrated by men against women. The rise of violence ..read more

Generation after generation, Pan-African elders and Black/African feminists have been unafraid in their support for the Palestinian people’s resistance against settler colonial occupation. Today as we witness unimaginable levels of violence, cutting off of communications, food, water and medical supplies, massacres, ethnic cleansing and genocide aiming to crash Palestine and erasure by the imperial foot and bombs of Israeli occupation forces and their supporters, African feminists remain strongly rooted in the tradition of solidarity with the oppressed.  They are over and over again with ..read more

In August 2023, four women were found guilty of performing Female Genital Mutilation by a Kuntaur Magistrate court in the Central River Region (CRR) near Gambia’s capital, Banjul.  According to The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children(Gamcoptrap), a feminist and gender activist movement that has championed the cause of FGM since 1984, the   children were between 4 months and one year old.  The existing law passed in 2015 bans Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and calls for a sentence of three years or a fine of fifty thousand or both ..read more

This year marks 126 years since women of Al-Matama in Sudan tied themselves together and plunged into the River Nile to escape the humiliation of rape. Now, history is repeating itself.  On April 15, war broke out in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force operating under the SAF.  Since then, SAF and RSF have been fighting in at least half of Sudan, and most of the fighting is concentrated in Khartoum state and the Darfur region, where the head of the RSF, General Hemedti, hails from.  This war is largely being fo ..read more

About three weeks ago, several members of the Ethiopian LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the diaspora woke up to TikTok videos containing pictures of their smiling faces under an Amharic text declaring, “Let us expose and oppose homosexuals!!!” The voiceover beckons viewers to stand up and say that homosexuality is neither natural nor a right. Similar videos emerged over the next week with pictures of individuals who live in Ethiopia and may or may not identify as LGBTQIA+.  Popular TikTok accounts—individually or as part of live-streamed gatherings— began calling for violence—killings, b ..read more

For days, the hunters have been gathering in their thousands on Telegram groups and TikTok live sessions, devising ways to capture their prey. They exchange notes about how to spot the “homosexual”. They agree that any person whose gender expression slightly deviates from their “perceived” gender is a homosexual. Any person with a rainbow: Check. Who defends homosexuals: Check. Who does not support the hunter’s genocidal intentions: Check. They start by roaming people’s social media. They pick on a well-known influencer who is in a heterosexual marriage and has a young child. She is outed as a ..read more

The World Bank has announced it will halt new loans to Uganda over the harmful anti-LGBTIQ law. On 26 May, Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023, which criminalises engagement in and promotion of same-sex relations in Uganda. It is the second time in his long 37 years of rule that the president has signed even a more repugnant law into force. Activists in Uganda have been pushing for responses to move the government, which has been entirely behind the law and its religious fundamentalist backers, to recede it. Two petitions have already been filed in ..read more

The Women Deliver Conference, held since 2007, is one of the world’s largest gatherings on gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This year, amidst a global backlash against the rights of women and people of diverse genders, the meeting was held for the first time in Africa in Rwanda between July 17-20, 2023.  More than 6,300 women’s rights activists, feminists, and policymakers from 170 countries attended. There were significant outcomes; most notably, the commitment of funding by Canada of more than $200 million in funding for new projects to support sexual ..read more

Transitions and change are the only constants in life. We grow, we regress, and sometimes we plateau.  But how do we measure progress and according to who, especially if one is involved in the non-profit sector, fighting against injustices?  I took a break from formal employment — what they call a sabbatical. It coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. A year before, I had moved countries and changed areas of work. But I couldn’t run away from the feeling of exhaustion. I was tired; I would describe to friends that it had become impossible to feed my soul. Here I was, on a new job that ..read more