In this episode, feminist philosopher and writer, Azille Coetzee helps us to think through White Afrikaner Femininity and how the constructs set up before and during Apartheid around this identity has persisted post-Apartheid. We touch on the complicated colonial history of South Africa, gender roles, class enclaves, Afrikaner patriarchy and how all of this is related to the politics of the everyday. We read poems by Antjie Krog and Ronelda Kamfer, and even drew on examples from the household magazine, Sarie. We shared our personal experiences as white Afrikaans women, and considered how this heteronormative identity is still present in our private homes today. This conversation stimulated questions around alternative ways of being, and how to subvert outdated ideas protected by private Afrikaner spaces.
Azille Coetzee is the writer of In My Vel: ‘n Reis (2019), a memoir exploring white Afrikaner identity, national belonging, immigration and love. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the South African Research Chair for Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University. She recently completed a PhD at the Vrije University of Amsterdam and Stellenbosch University. In her work she explores the relationship between gender and race in colonial logic, and the role of gender liberation in the project of decolonisation. Her research is published in various international feminist journals and she often writes for local South African publications like Vrye Weekblad, Litnet and Rapport.
You can find her on Instagram at @azille_coetzee. Her book is available on many platforms including as e-book on Takealot: https://www.takealot.com/in-my-vel-ebook/PLID54968008
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