From love to death: Home front is girls and women’s war front
Across the world tens of thousands of women and girls are being loved to death.
Gender
Free pads versus free condoms: Why we can’t afford this debate
Why the debate misses the very gendered point in a country where people with uteruses remain disproportionally affected by HIV.
What if you don’t identify as a man or a woman?
Bathrooms, pronouns and growing up in a binary world. Mia Malan speaks to Demelza Bush about being genderqueer.
When it comes to organ donation, women may be more likely to give than to receive
If you’re keen to save a life through donation after you die, speak now or forever hold your peace.
The M&G’s first Rainbow fellow: ‘I want to help empower LGBTI Africans’
The M&G’s first Rainbow fellow, Carl Collison, shares why issues affecting the LGBTI community on the continent are so important to him.
#AIDS2016: Youth will lead the way to an Aids-free generation – Ramaphosa
Education and opportunity are key to stemming the tide of HIV in South Africa’s young women.
‘Mrs Right Guy’ is a blockbuster but its take on feminity sells women short
Local films are finally depicting black lives but the ditzy heroine and her man preserve gender roles.
It pays to invest in poor girls and women – the returns are greater
Rwanda has shown that improved nutrition lifts individuals, families, communities and economies.
I can be both goddess and pot stirrer
And there it was: the assumption that I cannot cook simply because I choose to dress up and wear make-up regularly.
Spreading men and shrinking women
Women have learned to become smaller, more silent and as invisible as possible while navigating their lives. No more!
Praise be: We’re trans-forming
Androgyny used to be scandalous. Now it’s become de rigueur, and not a moment too soon.
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Give women more cellphones and they will change the world
However strong the social and economic benefits, the question of how we connect more women still remains.
Why South Africa can be accused of hating its young women
There’s been no measurable improvement to the issue of gender-based violence in the last decade. Why does SA appear to hate its women so much?
Maternity in Malawi is a DIY gamble
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
Maternity in Malawi is a DIY gamble
We’ll deliver your baby but sepsis control is your problem, say the country’s rural clinics.
She Shreds: Guitar magazine smashes women stereotypes
With articles on guitar goddesses such as St Vincent written by women, the magazine dispels the myth that learning to shred is a male-only pursuit.
51 shades of gender identity
Social roles can’t just be assigned according to one’s genitalia – we need new pronouns.
Genderqueer: Existing outside the binary
When Demelza Bush was a little girl, she knew she wasn’t. And they weren’t a boy either.
Domestic violence: Not a symbol of a man’s strength
Are 50 percent of men abusers?, asks Khaya Dlanga
Struggling to find God in a shared space
For we gender activists the Open Mosque is not quite so new. For over 20 years we’ve waged a gender jihad to gain inclusive access to mosques.
Where are the women of justice?
Our courts reflect huge progress in relation to race since democracy, but tarry on gender.
Social media sharpens our feminist solidarity
Feminism is dealing not just with sexism, but also its own uneasy relationship with privilege and race.
Push for female premiers is part of power struggle
The lobbying for female representation within the ANC is being used as a political tool as three male-led provinces are brought into the spotlight.
DON’T MISS THIS: Sex Through the Lens
A film screening looks at how movies influence, challenge and even change public opinion and discourse around gender, sexuality and human rights.
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It’s time for a period review
How do we begin to change the perceptions around menstruation?
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No place for complacency in gender equity
South Africa has a balance of men and women in Parliament that would rival Nordic countries, but it shouldn’t rest on its laurels.
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Social inequity behind female HIV prevalence
The disproportionate burden of HIV/Aids borne by women and girls in most developing countries requires urgent attention. At the heart of the problem is profound gender inequality and inequity, coupled with the systematic disempowerment of women, condoned by society for generations. Although a global problem, it is particularly evident in developing countries and the HIV/Aids […]
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Bill puts an end to inheritance gender discrimination
The National Assembly approves law amendments to allow women born out of customary marriages to inherit from their deceased parents’ estate.
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Groundbreaking gender protocol hailed
Gender activists breathed a sigh of relief when a long-delayed gender protocol was signed at the SADC summit in Johannesburg this weekend.
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Civil society: Gender and human rights
Aninka Claassens, Helene Combrinck, Zubeda Dangor, Zohra Dawood, Vuyiseka Dubula, Pregs Govender, Fatima Hassan and more …
