Call for Board Members: Join QW+ in Advancing Intersectional Feminist Change Across Africa

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Call for Board Members: Join QW+ in Advancing Intersectional Feminist Change Across Africa

QW+ is calling on committed, values-driven feminist leaders from across the African continent to join our Board and help guide the next chapter of our work. About Quote This Woman+ Why Join the QW+ Board? Quote This Woman+ (QW+) is a feminist, pan-African media non-profit working to shift who gets heard in the news. We … Read more

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JOB ADVERTISEMENT: Finance/Operations Lead (Part-time employment, Africa-based)

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JOB ADVERTISEMENT: Finance/Operations Lead (Part-time employment, Africa-based)

Start date: Feb or March 2026 Hours: Part-time (approximately 50 percent) Location: Remote across Africa Closing date – EXTENDED TO -13 January 2026 Quote This Woman+ is extending the deadline slightly for applications for a new part-time Finance/Ops lead. This is to allow for additional referrals at the end of the holiday period. About Quote This … Read more

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Open letter to conversation leaders around Gendered Violence: Choose your words with care

It is currently the 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence. And as Quote This Woman+, an African feminist non-profit working for a gender-just media, we call on all thought-leaders and writers to exercise responsibility for the words, phrases, and acronyms they choose in this conversation. We refer in particular to the easy euphemisms and acronyms … Read more

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Media Release: Quote This Woman+ calls for better language around 16 Days Activism campaigns

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Media Release: Quote This Woman+ calls for better language around 16 Days Activism campaigns

26 November 2025: Quote This Woman+ (QW+), an African feminist non-profit working to build a gender-just media, has released an open letter calling on government, international NGOs, academics, media professionals and civil society to choose their words with care during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence campaign. The open letter challenges the linguistic … Read more

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Gen AI Can’t Replace your Voice as a Media Expert, but it Can Help

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Gen AI Can’t Replace your Voice as a Media Expert, but it Can Help

This article is based on a media training session that the Nigerian Newspaper Prime Progress conducted, together with QW+, for new QW+ experts from Nigeria. You can access a link to the entire training here. Anybody who uses generative AI in their daily life might feel the temptation to turn to Large Language Learning Models … Read more

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How Experts Use Their Voices During 16 Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence

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How Experts Use Their Voices During 16 Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence

The 16 Days of Activism period brings an annual spike in media interest around gendered violence. Journalists look for experts who can help explain the violence and offer practical ways forward. For our QW+ community of researchers, economists, psychologists, lawyers and activists, this is our moment to be the steady, clarifying voice that guides the … Read more

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The company we keep: Dr Augusta Dorning

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The company we keep: Dr Augusta Dorning

Blurb: Author and healthcare executive Dr. Augusta Dorning brings four decades of experience across South Africa’s public, non-profit, and private healthcare sectors. Dorning has published The Power of Visualisation, co-authored with Dr. Shirley Zinn, a book that blends neuroscience, practical tools, and authentic African storytelling to equip readers to “create a life of purpose, possibility, … Read more

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The company we keep: Tarryn Tomlinson

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The company we keep: Tarryn Tomlinson

Blurb Tarryn Tomlinson is a disability activist who has embraced the opportunities AI offers to make real changes in accessibility and understanding of disability issues. As a tech innovator, she has created the world’s first AI accessibility assistant. She is also a television presenter, media producer, and media personality. Pronouns: She/Her Born: 11 October 1998 … Read more

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Five Things No One Tells You Before a TV Interview

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Five Things No One Tells You Before a TV Interview

At QW+, we have seen how powerful it is when feminist experts take up media space. We’re always especially amped when our experts appear on TV. But we get it: being invited for a television interview, while exciting, can be absolutely nerve-wracking. It is a moment where your voice can reach out to millions. Done … Read more

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Representation Matters: Shaping Fairer Media Policies in Africa

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Representation Matters: Shaping Fairer Media Policies in Africa

When you turn on the news or scroll through a feed, whose voices do you hear? Whose expertise counts as authority? Across Africa, too many stories still leave out women, rural communities, and other marginalised groups. Visibility in African media still favours a narrow few. Quote This Woman+ will be at the African Women in … Read more

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