By Gillian Schutte Cancel Culture proliferated on campuses across South Africa around 2016 – when the Fees Must Fall campaign was in its second year. It developed out of intersectional feminism premised…
Category: Diversity
KOP, Cancel Culture & the Suicide of Kai Singiswa
By Gillian Schutte *Some names have been changed to protect people’s identities.* In the last few years we have witnessed many youths taking their lives after finding themselves on the receiving end…
Adam Habib is not me. Sipho Singiswa questions Adam Habib’s appointment as Director of SOAS by University of London.
By Sipho Singiswa As an indigenous Black South African I write to express my dismay and disgust at the recent appointment of outgoing WITS Vice Chancellor, Adam Habib, as Director of the…
The Boy Child and Gender Based Violence
In this article, I’ll be speaking on gender-based violence against black men and boys in general terms, focusing on three points: the definition of gender with regards to gender based violence, recognition and acceptance of the phenomenon of gender based violence against men and boys, and lastly, the impact of race on the recognition of black men and boys as victims of violence.
Why Race Justice?
As a white person privy to a gamut of white attitudes, it is of great interest to me to explore how these divisive perspectives of white privilege proliferate in a way that…
Why do White Families Teach Racism to Their Kids?
By: Mawuna Remarque Koutonin
All Whites Are Racist Until Whiteness is Defunct.
By: Gillian Schutte
Decolonisation and the end of White Male Hegemony
By: Gillian Schutte
Whiteness is an Ancestral Trust Fund.
By Gillian Schutte To be born white in South Africa is akin to being born with a trust fund left to the white collective courtesy of our ancestors. White people can be…