ESTABLISHED IN 1987
AGENDA FEMINIST MEDIAAgenda aims to question and challenge current understandings and practices of gender relations. We contribute to the development of new knowledge about how gender relations can be transformed. In particular, we contribute to the development of women and their capacity to organize themselves, reflect on their experiences and write about this.
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Empowering Women for Gender Equity
Who We Are
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.
What We Do
Agenda has been at the forefront of feminist publishing in South Africa for the past 31 years. Through our flagship project, the Agenda journal, we raise debate around women’s rights and gender issues. Visit publisher Taylor & Francis Online to buy copies.
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Agenda values participatory and transparent processes and provides opportunities for individual growth and development. We host quarterly feminist dialogues in Durban, Cape Town and Pretoria. See the bottom of this page for upcoming events near you.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Reproductive Violence: Afrofeminist Perspectives
Contributors are invited to submit manuscripts on the above topic from either an activist or research perspective. Abstracts and contributions must be written in English and in a style that is accessible to a wide audience. Please submit abstracts to...
REPORT – New conversations? Girls and Young Women Speak to the Legacy of Gender Based Violence in South Africa
by Sibusisiwe Maphumulo-Intern (06 September 2018) Gender based violence (GBV) is a profound human rights violation with major social and developmental impacts for survivors of violence, as well as their families, communities and society more...
Tune in for Agenda’s 1st live radio broadcast in collaboration with Radio DUT
Listen live via: www.radiodut.co.za Date: August 10, 2015 Time: 1 pm to 1:30 pm every Monday (English) 5:15 pm to 5:30 pm every Monday (isiZulu)
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Upcoming Events
Feb 18 2021 - Online Journal Launch
6:30 pm Cultural Dialogues for Feminist Creatives: Southern Voices. Click here to participate.
Nov 22 2019 - Call for Abstracts
6:30 pm Cultural Dialogues for Feminist Creatives: Southern Voices. Guest editors: Professors Dr. Lliane Loots and Ms. Ongezwa Mbele.
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Latest Articles
“Powerless and afraid, I felt they let me down”: Reflections of a first-year student on gender-based violence at a university in South Africa
By Pryah Mahabeer
Despite existing national and institutional policies and interventions on gender-based violence (GBV), acts of GBV endure at universities in South Africa.
Through narrative research inquiry, this focus piece reports on the experiences and perspectives of GBV of a first-year student at a university in South Africa. The findings presented reveal how she experienced feelings of vulnerability, silenced by ignorance, fear and powerlessness in a university residential space. She voices her disappointment regarding the reporting of the GBV incident, the disciplinary process, and the outcome thereof. Retrospectively, ‘Zinzi’ provides possible recommendations from the ground up.
How can girls with disabilities become activists in their own lives? Creating opportunities for policy dialogue through ‘knowledge mobilization spaces’
By Xuan Thuy Nguyen,Thuy Linh Dang & Claudia Mitchell
This article examines the ways in which girls with disabilities (GWD) in the Global South, in this case, Vietnam, could engage in policy dialogues by examining the ways in which these girls can raise their voices through what we describe as ‘knowledge mobilization spaces’.
Specifically, we ask: How can researchers engage in activist work with girls and young women with disabilities? What do we learn from their voices? How can knowledge mobilization strategies such as photo exhibitions and video screenings become creative spaces for supporting their dialogues with policymakers and other stakeholders?