As part of a new revolution, South African women are making efforts to rewrite parts of our history in a way that is reflective, inclusive, and honest about the contributions the likes of Madikizela-Mandela have made during the struggle.

In 2012, around 800 women and 500 children in northern Ghana were estimated to be banished to and kept in 10 known “witch camps” for this very purpose.

While marching in Downtown LA as part of the city’s Climate Strike, I looked around and realized that many of the signs the protesters around me carried, and those that were affixed to surrounding booths run by progressive climate change organizations, were sexist.

Get Out succeeds so magnificently because it tackles large and complex theoretical subjects in a creative and imaginative way.

Gender-based and sexualized violence have gained new focus in South Africa in recent years. Femicide and rape crimes have increased at an alarming rate in the past four years; in 2016, a woman was murdered every four hours in South Africa, and by 2018, that rate rose to every three hours.

At the crux of the debate over who has the right to say the N-word without consequence is the question of ownership. When Gina Rodriguez, or anybody outside of the black community, stakes a public claim over the word, and the culture it belongs to, they rightfully court pushback from that community.

Women, mostly, are not encouraged in society to share their opinion. In 2012, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article in which they revealed that women only wrote 20 percent of op-eds in the nation’s leading newspapers.

On October 12, 2019, twenty-eight-year-old Atatiana Jefferson was shot by police officer Aaron Dean in her own home. Jefferson’s murder is yet another case of unwarranted, lethal violence perpetrated by a white police officer against a black civilian.

I used to think that kids who live in nice homes and attend good schools are not supposed to feel hopeless. I thought Black students like me were always supposed to be strong and overcome whatever we encountered the way our ancestors did.

As a person invested in social justice activism, and who participates in it mostly online, I frequently feel overwhelmed by both the lack of news of any strides towards progress as well as a constant stream of bad news.