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Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
Rosie Motene is driven by her three passions: Womxn, Africa, and the arts.
As a Pan-African Queer feminist writer, activist, speaker, and media proprietor, she uses her experience, privilege, and expertise of thirty years to speak up on issues around GBV and LGBTQI in Africa. Alongside her media work, she was trained and has worked in activism for over two decades. Rosie is a trained and certified counsellor and life coach and is currently completing her postgraduate studies in Drama Therapy and Psychology.
The podcast #Speakingthroughmyworld tackles various issues on GBVF, the arts, and Africa.
The broadcast is available on Buzzersproiyt, Spotify, Apple podcasts, and Google podcasts.
Email us if you would like to sponsor or collaborate on the platform. rosie@rosiemotene.biz.
Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
Nadine Dirks
Nadine Dirks is a writer, public speaker, activist, and communications expert.
Her work, interests, and expertise lie in intersectional feminism, gender, and sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Her passions come from her lived experiences.
Nadine is the author of Hot Water.
The book investigates how endometriosis affects the way young women function and navigate the world, and how this becomes especially complicated for those who are underprivileged and reliant on the public sector’s healthcare system. In Hot Water, Nadine Dirks reveals the unique issues of racism, sexism, classism, fatphobia, and slut-shaming that African women experience within the context of healthcare facilities, and how especially jarring it is when the stigma comes from medical staff whom one expects to have the patient’s care as their primary concern. All of this has enraged Dirks and catapulted her into becoming a sexual reproductive health and rights advocate.
Hot Water tells the story of how people with chronic illness are treated daily, at school, university, and socially for being differently abled; how people are regarded as lazy, aggressive, disappointing, and lacking, among multiple other things for being unwell in comparison to their healthy counterparts.
One cannot look at seeking adequate healthcare as a young, black, underprivileged woman on the Cape Flats without experiencing racism in the most blatant of ways. Even with guidelines in place, the book shows that it is next to impossible to invoke those rights even if you are aware of them for fear of being victimised and excluded from the system.