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Feminist Africa Volume 4, Issue 2 (2023)

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021

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Mardiya SibaYahaya

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Writing the Self, Re-telling and Positioning

Surfacing is an anthology that unravels, expands and rebuilds feminist practices as we know them.The book highlights the realities and thoughts of South African feminists and actively makes use of “writing the self” (Baderoon 2015) as a literary tool, but is not limited to it. Surfacing challenges its readers to consider ways their own distinctive and intersecting identifications may hold multiple contradictions, and how they shape our lives, experiences and environment. The compilation also explores shifting power structures and ways feminists in South Africa resist and diagnose normative capitalist and patriarchal dominance.

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