A rock of flesh and blood
Aug 30, 2020
4 minutes
The “strong, black woman” is honoured every August in South Africa for her valiant fight against injustice, past and present. Yet, during the fervent Women’s Month celebrations, there is deafening silence about the irony of this honorary title conferred on the weakest and poorest. The subterfuge lies in how black women are, in fact, compelled to be strong because intersectional aspects of their lives are constructed to beat, break and bruise them. They have become the metaphorical rock, braced to be struck politically, economically and socially at any given moment.
Engagements around Women’s Month are often promoted and accompanied by mantras such as “wathint’ abafazi wathint’
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