Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon
Editors of Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (Wits University Press 2021)

October 29, 2022

Surfacing Black South African Feminism and Productive Freedoms: A “Dialogic" Lecture/

 

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This lecture draws attention to the epistemological force of recent black South African feminist thought. While it is often assumed that this thought only reacts to injustice and oppression, the lecture focuses on how it “surfaces” expansive ideas about yearning, joy, love and freedom.

Desiree Lewis is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She writes on black and postcolonial feminism and is the author of Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining (2007). Her recent work on food expands the radical possibilities of postcolonial critiques of the Anthropocene

Gabeba Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-Apartheid and the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and The History of Intimacy. She is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies at Penn State University, where she co-directs the African Feminist Initiative.

 

For more information:

Professor Akinwumi Adesokan adesokan@indiana.edu

Professor Gaurav Desai desaig@umich.edu

Professor Matthew H. Brown web@africanlit.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information:

Professor Akinwumi Adesokan adesokan@indiana.edu

Professor Gaurav Desai desaig@umich.edu

Professor Matthew H. Brown web@africanlit.org