my activism

It has taken me time to accept that I am an activist, that is what people see me as and that’s what my journey has mostly been about. I am an activist because of the circumstances I was born into and the experiences that I have had. Therefore, my activism is born out of lived experience as a black woman from Kenya who has suffered violence in the past. Audre’ Lorde speaks of the personal being political and my journey and the way I do my activism is a result of being radicalised by personal experience and finding language and meaning for it.

I am a feminist because this lens give me language, values and meaning to the structural issues that I am surrounded by. It is also gives room to imagine solutions that see all of us as equal.

I am a teacher, if I was asked what I do well, I would say that I teach well. I would say that I am here to generate knowledge, to share knowledge and to use this as an avenue to create change.

I am also a survivor leader; this is to reclaim this identity which often comes with stigma and assumptions. Claiming this identity is my activism in a space that excludes survivors and puts them in boxes.