Like everyone else across the world, our favorite authors are confronted with the threat of COVID-19. Here, we document some of their reactions on social media to the pandemic. These range from providing uplifting advice and offering practical measures to tackling the crisis with a touch of humor. We take all of them as ways […]
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What We Are Reading This Week | A Radical Gospel for Feminist Revolutionaries
It’s week two of women’s history month, and we are celebrating angry feminists! Angry feminists, militant feminists, radical feminists, fire and brimstone feminists, call them what you will. But they are rhetorical warriors. They are writers, thinkers, activists who rudely awaken us from our political slumber to remind us that dismantling the patriarchy is more […]
Dr Stella Nyanzi Wins Appeal at Ugandan Court, Regains Freedom, But Is Possibly Re-arrested
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 […]
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 […]
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