Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2023 - Our Sisters Killjoy
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Keynote: Dina Ligaga
Rethinking African Women’s practices of Refusal in Selected Online Cultures
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Sister Killjoys
Chair: Yvette Abrahams
Sisanda Kubeka | Dreaming from the Margins of an Anti-Rage Society
Shilika Chisoko | Stone-Cold Madams in “A Hand to Hold” and “Madam’s Sister”
Purposeful (Kaata Minah) | How a Feminist Organisation Responded to an Angry Black Woman’s Call that made History in Sierra Leone
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Art Special
Chair: Zodwa Tutani
Mthunzikazi Mbungwana, Phila Phaliso & Sikhumbuzo Makhandula | Abantu Bomdongwe/ Nongayindoda (Clay Making/Men-like Women): Using Clay and Poetry to Embrace our Shadows
Londiwe Mtshali | In Search of Homplace
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Epistemic Violences
Chair: Kharnita Mohamed
Simone Peters, Refiloe Makama | Precariousness: Panicking while PhDing in a Pandemic and Beyond
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi | On Being an African Woman-Academic in America
Corinne Knowles, Linda Mensah, Mathe Ntsekhe | Virtual Onto-Epistemic Communities as Spaces of Radical Care and Transformative Learning
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Bared Bodies
Chair: Aika Swai
Micaela Scholtz | Acts of Damage: Historical Influences on the Endometriosis Experience Lyndré Bonhomme | How my Hair is my Extension. . .
Mbali Mazibuko | Seeking Rebellious Black Women
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Writing Lives
Chair: Phemelo Hellemann
Nomphumelelo Babeli | More Than Biko’s Widow: Re-centering the Life and Contributions of Nontsikelelo ‘Ntsiki’ Biko (née Mashalaba)
Kananelo Tsuene | “A madwoman on a wild horse blazing through the hills”: Exploring the Roles and Experiences of Women in Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King”.
Tembakazi Salayi | Rediscovering Forgotten IsiXhosa Women Writers: The Visibility of Letitia Kakaza And Victoria Swaartbooi in the History of IsiXhosa Written Literature
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Her-story
Chair: Nedine Moonsamy
Fortunate Jwara | Experimental Representations in South African Women’s Fiction: Feminist Storytelling as a Necessary Mode of Expression
Edgar Nabutanyi | Innovative Registers and Feminist Critique in Mark Behr’s “The Smell of Apples”
Pearl Munemo | “Vashti”: Re[ally]-telling Herstory
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 14.30-16.00
Panel: Violent violations
Chair: Khosi Motlatsi
Kharnita Mohamed | Death-Disability-Debility: An Analytic of Injustice
Joy Ifeanyi Joseph | “Stinging Bees” in Omawumi Edward’s “The Echo of my Piercing Scream”: A Stylistic Analysis
Ememobong Udoh and Golden Ekpo | “Women Now Live Like Men Here”: The Role of Gentrification in the Subjugation of Anti-Feminist Taboos in Uda Community, Southern Nigeria
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 14.30-16.00
Panel: Experiential Crossings
Chair: Londiwe Mtshali
Jamie Martin | Lessons from the Intersections of an Angry White Queer American Feminist Killjoy in South Africa
Abongile Sonkosi | What is Black? What is Woman? An Intersectional Analysis of Doctoral Candidates’ Experiences
Nonzuzo Mbokazi, Nokhetho Mhlanga | “Kusinda Jwehlela”: The Collision of Work Faced by Low-Income Employed Mothers Ibrahim Steyn | Bringing an Intersectional Feminist Lens to Sexuality Education in Africa
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 16.15-18.00
Book launches
Polo Moji | Gender and the Spatiality Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives Siphokazi Magadla | Guerrillas and Combative Mothers
Tumi Mampane | Pentecostal Charismatic Women
Danai S. Mupotsa | Black Transnational Feminisms and the Question of Structure
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Killjoy Re/Actions: Performative Interventions
Slindile Mthembu and Buhle Siwendu.