This publication, “From the Margins to the Centre” borrows from bell hooks’ seminal critique of mainstream feminism’s centering of white privileged women’s issues at the expense of non-white women. With this collection of essays, we attempt to render visible the voices and experiences of women in all their diversities, and to collate and amplify demands for a pandemic response and recovery that is time-bound, inclusive and gender-conscious. With this publication, we hope to shift women’s views and experiences from the margins to the centre. Borrowing from Adhurati Roy’s article “The pandemic is a portal”, we hope Covid-19 and all its related effects will cause the Government of Uganda and the wider global system to transition into new ways of governance.
https://www.akinamamawaafrika.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/akina_From-The-Margins-To-The-Centre-Discourses-On-The-Impact-Of-The-Covid-19-Pandemic-On-Marginalised-Groups-In-Uganda-1-1-1.pdf