My friends over at AccraAlt held one of their regular Talk Parties last week and invited Crystal Svaniker, Kobby Graham, Elvina Quaison and I to share insights from the Open Forum which we attended in May. My brief was to speak on the politics of sexual pleasure. I'm sharing below the blog post I wrote and delivered for the occasion. Sex is a deeply political act, yet it’s one of those acts that conservatives like to frame as private, and ...  [Read more]

I'm writing right now at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa, and thinking ahead to a plenary I will be participating in tomorrow morning. The plenary is on the topic of 'The Politics of Sexual Pleasure'. Its a plenary I argued for (My organisation the African Women's Development Fund is a technical partner to the Open Forum, and I was in the enviable position of being able to make a case for the importance of this ...  [Read more]