Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:24 — 10.4MB) Pinning down the understandings of current feminist debates on pornography may be long overdue for South African feminists and feminism/s, the subject having not attracted much attention since the 1990s. In South Africa post-1994, feminists paused for a moment to reflect on what the new freedom of expression meant under the new Constitution, and how the emergence of...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:45 — 10.8MB) Love has often been placed among the lesser order of priorities against the more important issues that hold our attention in seeking to transform gender relations in Africa. In discussing the concept note for the issue we were reminded of feminists’ belief that love has been seen not only as one of the relational contexts where women were likely to reproduce the worst forms...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:45 — 12.6MB) This podcast focusing on gender, ageing and intergenerationality, addresses a gap that has existed in social policy and research. Its intention is to investigate and reveal the human and gendered dimensions of ageing and not see age solely as a research cohort. The neglect of the conditions of material existence, the social invisibility and marginalisation of ageing groups of...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:52 — 9.9MB) In this programme, we take a trip to  Umbumbulu, which is situated 40 minutes outside of Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal. We hear the views of Susan Nkomo, independent consultant and founder of the South African Observatory on women’s rights; Taryn Powys, legal officer at South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equity; and Sizani Ngubane, founder of the Rural Women’s...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:04 — 15.6MB) The framing of discussion and debates around the broad interrelationship of gender, sexuality and commodity culture has elicited a wide range of contributions from writers that offer fresh scholarly research and open up important new ground for feminist thinking and reflection. In this podcast, we chat with the guest editor of this journal, Mary Hames, as well as...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:09 — 9.3MB) In this podcast,we look at how South Africa is faring in terms of meeting the UN MDGs. The podcast features high profile guests: African MDG champion, Graca Machel; United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay; and World Health Organisation review committee member, Shiobhan Crowley. We also get a glimpse into the life of domestic worker, Zodwa Ngwane and her...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:09 — 14.8MB) In this podcast 14 year old, Ocean Steenkamp, gives us a glimpse into the tumultuous world of Teenage Desire and Fertility. Teenage fertility is an issue that has received and continues to receive substantial attention worldwide. Much of this attention has focused primarily on teenage girls and has been concerned with preventing or mitigating the impact of pregnancy. Very...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:53 — 16.3MB) For heterosexual women, lesbians and gay men in South Africa; the subject of men as perpetrators of violence permeates our everyday lives. In response, we express outrage at headline-grabbing instances of brutality; and we mobilize public demonstrations to convey our support both for survivors and victims of violent crimes. Yet tacit acceptance of male violence continuously...
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Agenda Feminist Media is committed to giving women a forum, a voice and skills to articulate their needs and interests towards transforming unequal gender relations. We aim to question and challenge current understandings and practices of gender relations.
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We have been at the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for the past 25 years. Through our flagship project, the Agenda journal, we raise debate around women’s rights and gender issues. The journal is IBSS/SAPSE accredited and peer reviewed.Â
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