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Solome Nakaweesi Kimbugwe is a Ugandan feminist activist, international development consultant, and thought leader with over three decades of experience advancing women’s rights, gender equality, and social justice across Africa. She has held leadership positions in major women’s rights organisations and has contributed to policy development, movement building, and feminist scholarship.
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It means daring to be different and question authority, speaking out, claiming my space and being autonomous.
Have you ever heard of inviting your oppressor to join you? In every sense of the word they have screwed us up.
Speaking during the Second African Feminist Forum in Kampala (2008)
To me feminism means women’s universal freedom from oppression of the mind, soul, thought, body, sexuality and spirit.
If someone hasn't felt how it feels to eat last, to work more and to earn less, how do you expect them to support you?
No woman is free until all women are free.
It means sisterhood – that collectivity, bonding, the power and energies of sisters ever flowing, networks and understanding each other.
I always felt I had to do something to change the status quo.
At a personal level, it means reclaiming back my sexuality and bodily autonomy, and bringing to light the politics of sexuality and how it is used to control women's lives.
I became a feminist because I was angry; very angry and filled with positive anger that took a better part of my life.
The time has come for us as a women's movement and as feminists to talk about our non-negotiables and the fact that we should not let the church define our rights.
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