I don’t think I can even begin to express the amount of fun I had in working with the team when planning and implementing the Community Engagement Program.
The program was a great success, the feedback from the young learners from the Leadership College in Mannenberg was very positive;…Read more
One of the Saddest realities in the post 1994 South Africa is that poverty still has the face of a black child and a black woman. In seeing this image on my Facebook feed, not only was I reminded of the aforementioned reality,…Read more
For the past three months i have been preoccupied with this idea of technological use within the field of mental health, and my thinking has been around the manner in which technology can be used to enhance access to services.…Read more
Over the past weekend I have been thinking a lot about this piece I wanted to write about the role of small businesses in feeding and building nations, and I found myself pondering about the language with which I would write such an entry.…Read more
The attached image beautifully captures what i have been up to, in terms of my engagements this year. We just came out of our Heritage month, September, and all i saw on my social media feeds were images and posts that promote and reinforce and exclusively hetero-sexist idea of Afrikanism.…Read more
Over the past week i’ve been thinking deeply about, and reflecting on the 2016 local government elections; and ironic as this may sound, this was predominantly inspired and influenced by the #IfDAWins and #Uvalo witticism that went viral on social media during the vote counting phase of the election process.…Read more
So i recently read a blog on Psychology Today’s blog index, and the subject of the entry was based on a study conducted by the University of Texas, Arlington, which sought to understand why straight women have strong relationships with gay men.…Read more
So Last Tuesday I decided to visit the DuPont circle on my way back from work, where mostly members of the LGBTQI+ from around Washington D.C. gathered for a candlelight vigil to show support to victims of the Orlando Shooting.…Read more
So after a pretty heated discussion I had with some of my SAWIP team mates last Saturday about the need for the decriminalization of sex work, I later found myself thinking deeply and critically about the role of moralism as a predisposing and perpetuating factor of oppression.…Read more
So earlier this week I had promised my friends that I would write a blog on my experiences in applying for the Mandela Rhodes Fellowship, and that this would be a reflection on my idea of the material outlook of decolonization.…Read more