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A taste of radical feminism meeting the fight for equality

by Alli Appelbaum on Jul 14 in Experience 1 Comment

As the SAWIP team has now deduced, equality - in all senses of the word - is enormously important to me. People deserve equal rights by virtue of their humanity. No place has reaffirmed this belief more than the Holocaust Museum we visited today.

Staceyanne Chin is a Jamaican New Yorker lesbian poet radical feminist. (This lack of punctuation will give you a taste of how she speaks.) She is a remarkable woman. I would strongly recommend watching this clip on equality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo1mzxchrqM

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Alli Appelbaum

Alexandra Appelbaum is presently in her third year studying towards a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science at the University of Cape Town. She holds the position of Human Resources Manager of the Township Debating League, a project run under the umbrella of the Ubunye NPO, an education-focused community development organization at UCT. She was recently an exchange student at the University of California-Berkeley. A proficient academic, she frequently places amongst the highest achievers in her faculty. Alli is passionate about social justice, development, education, literature, travel and the arts. She hopes to make a positive contribution to the conceptions and realities of South Africa, Africa and the Global South.

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sally Saturday, 21 July 2012 · Edit

Wow, what a powerful piece delivered in an extremely powerful way! The battle is far from won.

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