Sally Jean Shackleton
South Africa
We need to live the commitment in all spaces to accept and welcome diversity in all its forms
and engage with it honestly.
I live and work in Cape Town, South Africa, and I work in South Africa.
My work has a focus on media, communications and using information and
communication technologies as a tool to raise voices for change. I work with
sex workers, transgender people, gender activists and feminists. I am currently
working with the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT),
Women’s Net and Just Associates (JASS).
the commitment in all spaces to accept and welcome diversity in all its forms
and engage with it honestly. Finally, to strengthen connections, we could build
better communication and use of ICTs and a feminist practice of technologies—
skilling women to write, make movies, amplify their voices.
I call myself a feminist because feminism is fundamental to challenging
oppression, and because doing so puts me in the company of a community of
many powerful and thoughtful women.
I think we can popularise the African Feminist Charter for local messaging and
adoption. I think it should be linked to local challenges—like the struggle for
sex workers rights. I would also like to hear more stories of adoption of the
charter, more stories of African feminists who us