Like anywhere in the world and in history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender South Sudanese exist. Crimalisiing and stigmatizing their existence means they live in denial and hiding but does

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It’s been over three years now since the proposed Anti-Gender-Based Violence Bill was submitted to the National Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. A month ago, The Ma’Mara Sakit Village community of

To commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2022, Gender Talk 211 highlighted 16 individual and collective South Sudanese women and girls’ stories of resistance (a story each day)

Abstract African progressiveness faces many challenges. One of the greatest opponents has become the politics of sexuality on the continent. The discourse on decriminalizing homosexuality has always followed that of

Gender Talk 211 dedicated the month of March 2020 to honoring 30 South Sudanese women and their efforts to challenge gender norms and contribute to creating change globally. The commemoration

There never seemed to be a conversation I had with a man in Juba that didn’t mention why I’m not married. From the bishop to the shopkeeper, right down to

You can’t be a good girl, and you know or speak about sex. In some South Sudanese communities, you need a pair of white bedsheets to prove your sexual naivety

Adultification bias is a social prejudice where children get treated, perceived, and held to a standard of being more mature than they are, either within a cultural group or society

African culture and custom, as they exist today, are a blend of African customs, imported colonial common and civil law notions, and religious concepts from Christianity, Islam, and traditional African

Since I was three years old, I’ve known my mother as “Mara Beet” or “Uma Eyal,” which means “woman of the house” or “mother of the children.” I couldn’t view my mother as anything

How many more bodies of dead girls and women do we want to find hanging on trees or ceilings before we put an end to Gender-Based Violence? Jumping off a

Due to multiple intersections of identities, women and girls with disabilities are up to 10 times morel likely than women without disabilities to experience sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). This discrimination is institutional.

In their poem, Gil Scott-Heron wrote, “The revolution will not be televised.” A lot has happened since the ’70s. In this technological era, will the revolution be digitized? Does the

I have always felt like being born female is one of the world’s wonders but in a horrible way. I am always encouraged and told I can be anything I