[First published on the Institute of Development Studies website on 17 August 2015.] I recently had the pleasure (and challenge) of being part of a team of Research Assistants working for the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). My two colleagues...
[First published on the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) Interactions Eldis website.] Ntokozo Yingwana explores lessons on the importance of a collective strategy for impact, inspired by a global learning...
As you might already know, I’m currently doing a Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), at the University of Sussex. This semester I took the Sexuality and Development module. One of the exercises...
Recently I had (for the first time) the opportunity to present my scholar-activism work in an academic forum. On the 4th of March the PECANS (Postgraduate and Early Career Academics Network of Scholars) hosted a workshop on the theme: ‘Sexual...
Looking back at this term of ‘Theoretical Perspectives in Gender and Development’ lectures/seminars I find it hard to pin down one major learning. One thing for sure though – I now see the world a little bit differently to when we started the module...
Sonke Gender Justice (2014). Sex Workers and Sex Work in South Africa: A Guide for Journalists and Writers. Sonke Gender Justice, Sisonke Sex Workers Movement, Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce, and Women’s Legal Resource Centre:...
While starting my Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, I’m also completing my Honours research project at the University of Cape Town, looking at ‘Sex Work and Feminism: What it means to be an African sex...
It might have been my third week here in Brighton when I was walking down London Road and decided to stop for a bite to eat at some cosy homemade (looking) pie restaurant. The woman who took my order, also an African, remarked: ‘You are from South...
‘They took the razor out of the bag… I will never forget the pain I felt’, these were the emboldened words next to the face of a young African woman, with morose eyes that seemed to stare right back at me, while I sat on the London tube this past...
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ (Simone de Beauvoir 1949). The sentiment encapsulated in this classic quote is that gender is socially constructed, and not predetermined by genitalia (being born with either a penis or a vagina). That...
