Living While Feminist
Living While Feminist
Jen Thorpe
S2, E10: Naledi Maponopono - Economic liberation and feminism in the classroom
26 minutes Posted Mar 8, 2021 at 3:00 am.
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The season finale is SHORT, but SO amazing!

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Naledi Maponopono.

Naledi is a grade 4 to 12 isiXhosa teacher at Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard. She is also a lecturer at the South African College of Applied Psychology.

She’s the Deputy Provincial Secretary of the Young Communist League of South Africa in the Western Cape, and the director of her own company -- Inkwenkwezi Language Services.

Naledi was the first person to send me a submission for Living While Feminist. Her piece is called ‘My body as a site of violence’ and in that piece she says: "I find liberation in understanding my oppression because understanding my oppression helps me to define the tools I can use to constantly liberate myself and other women."

So today I’m going to talk to Naledi about liberation, about teaching, and about a more equal world.