Gender Activism Website Provides Much-Needed Platform for Zimbabweans Globally

Geri-Leigh Diana - Global Press Institute – Friday, 03 August 2012 (originally published 01 Aug)

A Zimbabwean woman started a new website earlier this year to give fellow Zimbabweans around the world a platform to express their opinions and define themselves. The founder and the site’s contributors aim to promote gender activism as a more inclusive, empowering and positive alternative to feminism.Image: LR Ramos-Reyes

HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Fungai Machirori seems wise beyond her 28 years. The vibrant woman smiles from behind her glasses in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, before speaking about her brainchild, a website called Her Zimbabwe.

“It’s an important space for the alternative Zimbabwean women’s narrative,” she explains. “Zimbabwean women are generally painted over with one brushstroke by the media. It’s a chance to tell another story and think in a new way.”

Machirori is the founder and managing editor of Her Zimbabwe. She created the platform in March 2012 and says she is pleased to see it already has 1,785 “likes” on Facebook as well as countless contributors . . .

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