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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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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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