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Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
"Speaking truth through an African feminist lens—amplifying our voices through impactful artivism rooted in ancestral wisdom and healing."
Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
Rosie Motene is driven by three core passions: womxn, Africa, and the arts. As a Pan-African queer feminist, writer, activist, speaker, and media proprietor, she draws on over 30 years of experience in media and more than two decades in feminist and LGBTQI+ activism. Rosie is also a certified counsellor and life coach, currently completing postgraduate studies in Drama Therapy and Psychology.
Her podcast, #SpeakingThroughMyWorld, explores urgent and underrepresented issues across gender-based violence, queer rights, the arts, and the African experience. It offers bold, intersectional conversations rooted in advocacy, healing, and creative resistance.
Listen on Buzzsprout, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
To sponsor or collaborate, email: rosie@rosiemotene.biz
Episodes
59 episodes
Sitahen: Sudan’s Women, War, and Solidarity
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, Rosie Motene turns the spotlight on Sudan, a country whose ongoing war and humanitarian crisis remain underreported and overshadowed. While the world rightly raises its voice against ...
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Conversations on the Spirituality of the Land, Women, and Reclaiming What Is Ours, with Michelle Festus
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, titled “Conversations on the Spirituality of the Land, Women, and Reclaiming What Is Ours,” we journey deep into the soil, into our roots, and into the enduring wisdom the land holds for us as A...
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35:33
Inside the Open Book Festival: The Past, The Crisis, The Future
In this episode, I sit down with Frankie Murrey, the heart and programme coordinator behind the Open Book Festival, a space that, since 2011, has created room for brave, bold, and necessary conversations through literature.We explore the...
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36:14
Speaking Through Trouble. Episode 1: JAIL SOLIDARITY with Céline Lebrun-Shaath
Speaking Through Trouble — Series Introduction Speaking Through My World has joined forces with the powerful TROUBLEMAKERS podcast, a global space that celebrates creative resistance, radical imagination
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Amplifying Activist Voices Through Writing with Amber French
Amplifying Activist Voices Through Writing with Amber FrenchIn this episode, we are joined by Amber French, Senior Editorial Advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Managing Editor of the Mind...
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47:36
Zoey Black- Gamut 1
I am in conversation with Zoey Black, a queer renaissance and culture documentarian based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work is focused on telling authentic and engaging queer stories through film and photography.Zoey is the founde...
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26:50
Marylize Biubwa- The co-founder at The Queer Republic.
Marylize is a Kenyan intersectional feminist and activist, whose focus is on gender inequality, while their feminism is intersectional and directed towards human rights. They are black and a non-binary lesbian and use they/them pronouns....
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Beautiful Trouble with Ashley Waudo
Beautiful Trouble- A book, strategy card deck, online toolbox, and creative campaign incubator.An international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.I am in ...
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15:35
MONICAH KAMANDAU
I am in conversation with MONICAH KAMANDAU- The Social Movements Learning Specialist with the MOVE team at MS TCDCMS TCDC is a renowned Pan-African training centre situated in Arusha, Tanzania. It is unique in its dedication to high-qua...
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25:13
Dr menzi
I am in conversation with Dr Menzi Mkhize.Dr. AM Mkhize is a medical doctor who qualified at the University of KwaZuluNatal. He has both critical care and rural medicine experience but decided topour his passion into public health.<...
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55:17
RISHA PATAK-HARIE from I-lead self-defense.
RISHA PATAK-HARIE from I-lead self-defense.As South Africans, we face various forms of violence. Our government has shown its position on combatting GBV, which looks progressive on paper only. As we operate in territories we are fam...
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30:02
School Ties
MNET has a new series called School Ties, debuting 16 May 2024 at 21:00. School Ties is a ground-breaking and harrowing four-part documentary seriesabout the grooming and sexual abuse of learners at some of South Afric...
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32:25
Stop protecting perpetrators in religious institutions.
TRIGGER WARNING Confirmation of Sa'ar Shaked expelled from The South African Association Of Progressive Rabbis.Expelled Rabbis:Sa’ar Shaked had been charged with violating Ethics Code Section V (Sexual Boundar...
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6:51
Feminists in Kenya
Feminists in Kenya is a Black feminist movement organizing and amplifying feminist discourse and practice and building solidarity across other feminist movements.In 2018, SA feminists, activists, advocates, and the public rallied to...
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22:54
KISUMU FEMINISTS SOCIETY
Their mission is “Redefining feminism in African Womxn’s views through the Celebration of African feminists in spaces that are inclusive, inter-sectional and Afrocentric.”Kisumu Feminist Society was legally registered in 2018 by a group...
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24:24
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 com...
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37:01
Social media detox and dopamine fasting.
Social media detox and dopamine fasting.Come with me as I share the journey of my 21-day social media detox and dopamine fast. I abstained from X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube for 21 days.
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26:47
Dshamilja Roshani
Dshamilja Roshani is a Berlin-born poet, writer, and performer of German-Iranian descent based in South Africa. Formally trained in Political Science and Creative Writing, their work explores themes such as queerness, identity, home, and belong...
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27:59
The Law vs GBV/IPV
The Law vs GBV/IPVSociety and communities are quick to say that victims/survivors of GBV/IPV should open cases and let the law take its course. The reality is that the course has many loopholes and challenges which can be exacerbated by ...
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15:08
1in9 Campaign- The purple T-shirt warriors.
The One in Nine Campaign is a South African organisation motivated by feminist principles and the desire to live in a society where womxn are the agents of their own lives.It was created in 2006 to support Fezeka Kuzwayo, known as Khwezi...
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22:45
Dear Mr. President, This PRIDE Pass The National Identification and Registration Bill
Zade de Kock, a Nguvu-Collective Change Leader, is a 20-year-old, transgender non-binary person from the Eastern Cape. They're a multi-dimensional person who has currently been working on a campaign that advocates for the rights of LGBTQ+...
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24:13
Tumi Tlhabi- Rooted in the soil, art and culture of our country,
I am conversing with Tumi Tlhabi, a black Queer woman who is a farmer, art gallery director, and entrepreneur. Tumi represents The North West province and shares her challenges, passions, and successes.
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37:02
Uhuru Mbele from Tosunga Baninga
Uhuru (Norma) Mbele is the founder of Tosunga Baninga.'Tosunga Baninga' is a phrase in the Lingala language of Central Africa, meaning 'helping you to help others.Uhuru shares why she founded the grassroots organisation in ...
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