Dr Stella Nyanzi is free. The academic, feminist and queer rights advocate has been in prison for criticising Uganda’s long-serving president Yoweri Museveni. She was found guilty of “cyber harassment” against President Museveni in August 2019 and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Nyanzi, through her lawyers, appealed her conviction and sentence, citing unfairness and […]
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Dr Stella Nyanzi Publishes Poetry Collection, No Roses From My Mouth, from Jail
Dr Stella Nyanzi, the Ugandan academic and gender and queer rights activist currently in jail for criticising Uganda’s long-serving president Yoweri Museveni, has published a poetry collection. Nyazi, most recently awarded the 2020 Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression, wrote it in jail. The 196-page book, titled No Roses from My Mouth, was […]
Ainehi Edoro’s Feminism in African Lit Course at UW-Madison Theorizes Mona Eltahawy, Nnedi Okorafor, Titilope Sonuga, Wanuri Kahiu, & Beyonce
As part of her Spring 2020 programme, Brittle Paper founder Ainehi Edoro will be teaching a course, “Feminism in Contemporary African Literature,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of English, where she is Assistant Professor, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. The course, she wrote in a Facebook post, is inspired by the Egyptian […]
Mona Eltahawy’s New Book, The Seven Necessary Sins of Women and Girls, Coming in Fall 2019
Egyptian writer and feminist icon Mona Eltahawy has a new book coming in Fall 2019. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls will be released by Beacon Press. The author made the announcement on Twitter. http:// My new book is called The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls and it is coming out […]
“What Keeps Girls from Knowing the Power in Them?”: Mona Eltahawy on the Importance of Female Rage
Egyptian writer and outspoken feminist Mona Eltahawy is asking important questions about the necessity and possibilities of female anger. In an op-ed titled “What the World Would Look Like if We Taught Girls to Rage,” published on NBCNews, she uses examples—of a stranger who showed her his genitals when she was a child, of Ursula […]
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