I read Pumla Dineo Gqola’s, “Rape: A South African Nightmare” at a time when I was coming to terms with what it meant to exist as a consistent target for the enactment and re-enactment of violence. I was coming to terms with the fact that I had been in a sexually/emotionally abusive relationship, and yet even with this knowledge, many of the men around me were not responsive to the message I was communicating through my vulnerability which was “be careful with me, I am only n

I first left my home country when I was a wide-eyed sixteen-year-old and headed off to a highly selective pre-University program in South Africa that selects students it hopes will one day be a new breed of African leaders. Currently, I go to a small, liberal arts Women’s College in Northampton, Massachusetts- a college whose very foundations in the late 19th century were revolutionary- for white American women, at first, and eventually for all women to gain a world-class edu