Awino Okech
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Dr. Awono Okech is a Kenyan academic, based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where her "teaching and research interests lies in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies".
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[edit]- I am attentive to power in knowledge production and transfer processes and explore these dynamics through my methodological and pedagogical choices"
- How people experience the impact of harmful laws that criminalise behaviour is directly impacted by their racial, gender, and class positioning in [their] societies.”=
- You cannot think about being a woman only from the perspective of being a woman.
- On Intersectionality and Identity on May 26, 2021
- The work that we should be doing is to excavate, to rethink the very robust and broad ways that our societies understood gender.
- On Reclaiming African Histories of Gender and Sexuality on May 26, 2021
- My feminist politics evolved from childhood as I was raised in a family of strong women.
- I continue to be involved in civil society activism on women's rights and believe in fusing academic research and 'practical' activism.
