Practical systemic changes needed to move the needle on gender power
How can we end the rape epidemic when we consistently ignore the insights that come from anti-rape activists?
07 August 2022 - 00:00
Several years ago, at a One in Nine Campaign, an activist held up a placard which read, “we’re not just faces and vaginas”. This is a placard that remains in my mind’s eye. It captured the frustrating lip-service paid to patriarchal oppression in SA, a country whose public discourse is saturated with challenges to patriarchy and changing women’s lives. ..
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