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I write and speak about intersectional queer feminist politics, veganism, Muslim women, pop culture.
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Listen to The Critical Stans 2.0 on Spotify. A weekly podcast featuring Shaazia Ebrahim and Fatima Moosa, two brown women living in the world as avid consumers of all things fan-related. It is impossible for them to ignore the politics of pop culture.
What if we tell you that Korean pop music has the ability to bring the world to its knees? A quick internet search will reveal sold-out K-pop concerts teeming with fans singing their hearts out to lyrics they barely understand. Its stans are known to learn every pop, lock, and shimmy from the choreography of their favourite songs.
The guide is intended as a valuable tool and resource for you as editors and journalists in Eswatini by supporting your efforts to contribute towards GBV reporting which is respectful of survivors and victims of GBV, consistent with the law and contributes to ensuring a non-discriminatory public discourse on GBV in Eswatini.
I was in an online lecture when word spread across various social media channels that Adam Habib, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, had said the N-word during a student union (SU) meeting. Hearing the rumour, I thought surely not.
The #MeToo movement began on our timelines - then became tangible as scores of high-profile American men are being ousted and fired for their trash behaviour. South Africa has its own list of high-profile men who are perpetrators of sexual misconduct. But they continue to escape their sexist behaviour unscathed.
On the second Eid of the Islamic calendar called Eid-al-Adha, Muslims around the world offer sheep, goats, cattle, and camels for Qurbani or sacrifice. This meat is distributed to the poor. It symbolises the intended sacrifice by Prophet Abraham of his only son at the time.
The photos and videos of widespread looting and burning of stores and businesses owned by foreign nationals in South Africa look like scenes from an apocalyptic film. At least seven people have been killed in this latest mayhem, while hundreds have been arrested in connection with the violence.
Nomfundo Ngobese (25) was used to waking up at 4am to walk the 35km from her home in Nquthu, northern KwaZulu-Natal to school. Ngobese was like many South African learners who walked for hours to get to and from school each day - in the blistering heat, freezing cold, crossing rivers and sometimes dodging rain and lightning.
South Africans are encouraged to take precautionary measures to curb the spread of the pandemic by practising social distancing and intensifying hygiene control. The country will also be under a nationwide lockdown in order to "fundamentally disrupt the chain of transmission across society" from 26 March for 21 days.
