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Awino Okech Quotes

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Dr. Awono Okech is a Kenyan academic, based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where her "teaching and research interests lies in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies".

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You cannot think about being a woman only from the perspective of being a woman.

The work that we should be doing is to excavate, to rethink the very robust and broad ways that our societies understood gender.

I continue to be involved in civil society activism on women's rights and believe in fusing academic research and 'practical' activism.

How people experience the impact of harmful laws that criminalise behaviour is directly impacted by their racial, gender, and class positioning in [their] societies.”=

My feminist politics evolved from childhood as I was raised in a family of strong women.

I am attentive to power in knowledge production and transfer processes and explore these dynamics through my methodological and pedagogical choices"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Awino Okech (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.