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Pumla Dineo Gqola
13 quotes
“I am a southern African feminist author and academic.”
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“I was a very enthusiastic reader as a child.”
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“I think those of us who really believed in the project that this was the right way to change this country, I think we underestimated that critique that said too many compromises had been made.”
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“But I also disagree completely with young people who say nothing has changed. I mean as messed up and as flawed as it is, it's not the country I grew up in.”
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“The commitment to actively oppose and end patriarchy is one.”
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“Patriarchy works like other systems of oppression, like racism and capitalism, to value some people and brutalise others.”
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“We are socialised into the Female Fear Factory in ways similar to how we are made fluent in language.”
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“It is a time for rigour and not a time for safety.”
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Recorded in: Gqola made this statement during the 2018 TB Davie Memorial Lecture at the University of Cape Town, arguing that universities should encourage rigorous thinking and intellectual risk rather than comfort or self-censorsh…
“To pretend that threats to matters of academic freedom emerge exclusively from sources outside the academy requires that we look away from pressure on scholars to self-censor.”
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“We know thinking is risky work.”
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“Academic freedom is about testing the limits of this risk and helping clarify for all of us, even if we don't agree, why academic freedom continues to matter.”
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“We will do well to remember that students have always been at the heart of academic freedom debates in this country.”
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“Universities have to deal with discomfort made possible by a new generation of students.”
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