Intersectionality in African digital organizing: a Ghanaian perspective

W. F. Mohammed
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Although there is growing scholarship on intersectionality in African feminist movements, there are still gaps in scholarship on intersectionality on the continent when it comes to various identity categories. I examine intersectionality within the Ghanaian context using African feminisms as a backdrop. I argue that to drive African feminisms toward emancipatory praxes, it is imperative to center identity categories that are often erased from feminist conversations and to pay attention to organizing from these margins to amplify the erased narratives about marginalization. I theorize these silenced narratives drawing on my experiences as a Muslim Dagbana woman and my work in African and Ghanaian feminist digital spaces. Here, I focus on ethnicity as an identity category that is often overlooked within feminist discourses in national contexts in Africa. I point to organizing strategies that can facilitate the centering of identities and feminist issues that have historically been pushed to the margins.
非洲数字组织的交叉性:加纳视角
尽管关于非洲女权运动的交叉性的学术研究越来越多,但当涉及到各种身份类别时,关于非洲大陆交叉性的学术研究仍然存在差距。我以非洲女权主义为背景,研究加纳背景下的交叉性。我认为,为了推动非洲女权主义走向解放实践,必须将经常从女权主义对话中被抹去的身份类别放在中心,并注意从这些边缘组织起来,以扩大关于边缘化的被抹去的叙述。我根据自己身为穆斯林达格巴纳妇女的经历,以及我在非洲和加纳女权主义数位空间的工作,将这些沉默的叙述理论化。在这里,我关注的是种族作为一个身份类别,在非洲国家背景下的女权主义话语中经常被忽视。我指出,组织策略可以促进身份和女权主义问题的中心,这些问题在历史上一直被推到边缘。
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