Posts from Cape Town, South Africa in Race/Ethnic Relations from 2017

1. I am aware that suffering and the resulting struggle build whole nations, historical connections, unbreakable bonds. I imagine the …

People are complex. Everyone is as complex as you. You know those fun times where you have weird thoughts that …

“You don’t know anything about your own people.” My mind is blank. What just happened? One hour before this exchange …

For the first half of our first week at the Women’s Legal Centre, we dealt with such abstract and sweeping …

“Justice happens not when you know more, but when you feel more.” – Peter Storey Justice is all about feeling. …

Sawubona from South Africa! We spent our first week in Johannesburg going to various monuments, townships and museums, in order …

It is difficult to write on South Africa with any cohesion, because as I have talked and talked through some …

Nuances. If I had to pick one word to summarize my experience and thoughts from our first week in South …

I am a stranger here. Here in this big city where the cars drive on the left side of the …

In the lead up to this week, I had been pretty worried. This was a big trip. I was going …