“House Ballroom and Vogue culture isn’t just performance — it’s a blueprint for oppressed people to build kinship, affirm identities and imagine new futures across geographies.” — H. Adereti

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“I study what ‘freedom’ looks and feels like in Black women’s lives after 1994...freedom is not just about rights on paper, but about whether our bodies, relationships and everyday realities are actually safe, valued and supported.” — Nomancotsho Pakade

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Through our fellowship programme, we nurture critical, transnational feminist research that connects knowledge to action and strengthens movements for justice.

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H. Adereti explores how voguing, house, and ballroom culture function as dynamic sites of queer survival, organising, and cultural resistance.

Nomancotsho Pakade examines how Black women in South Africa define and experience freedom by revisiting the country’s two Women’s Charters of 1954 and 1994.

Anne Stella Mulama studies the complex journey of Kenyan domestic workers returning from Gulf countries, investigating how community dynamics shape their reintegration and collective resilience.

Agness Nataba examines the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom case on reparative justice against the British, exploring the specificity of Banyoro women’s experiences.

These are the questions Prof. Awino Okech has grappled with for feminist worldmaking.

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“I use feminist research and storytelling to make visible the everyday activism of women in the Great Lakes region — women who rebuild communities, challenge exclusion, and lead with courage in the face of systemic injustice.” — Nina Chizungu

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“I am not a scholar – I am an immigrant, a practitioner, and an advocate who has lived the barriers I now work to dismantle.” — Tamara Isaac 💜

Tamara's work builds multilingual, trauma-informed tools that help communities advocate for dignity, justice, and inclusion.

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The AiR programme is about mutual learning.

Residency holders use feminist and community-based methods to build tools, stories, and strategies that challenge racism and racialisation.

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