Queer Digital Feminism or Keyboard warriors?

Women’s and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape

Invite you to a seminar on

Queer Digital Feminisms or Keyboard warriors? A critical look at queer feminist decolonial online activism.

This forum opens up discussions about feminist, queer and decolonial activism and what it means to be an activist in contemporary globalised times? And specifically through online and internet spaces? How do decolonial queer feminist engage with systems of oppression in multiple spaces and places? What decolonial feminist pedagogies and tools of resistance exist in online spaces? The speakers will also examine the challenges activists face when they organize online as well the relationship and entangled effects of online activism and 'on the ground' advocacy.

Speakers:

Nosipho Vidima

Wandile Dlamini

Nigel Patel

Tigist Shewarega Hussen

Moderated by Wanelisa Xaba

DATE: 15 AUGUST 2018

TIME: 12:30 – 4.00 pm

VENUE: Arts Space venue, Faculty of Arts UWC

This event is hosted by the Andrew W. Mellon funded Project on New Imaginaries of Gender and Sexual Justice, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape

A light lunch will be served from 12.30 p.m.

RSVP: Wanelisa Xaba wanelisa.sayf@gmail.com/ newimaginaries@gmail.com