by PsySSA | Sep 17, 2021 | 2021 Workshop Series, Sexuality and Gender
Register for this Workshop 29 September 2021 Click here PsySSA Workshop Series: Workshop 9: The tyrannies of pink and blue reproducing gender in primary schools Meet our Presenters! Presenter Bios Facilitators:Prof Peace Kiguwa Peace Kiguwa (PhD) is Associate...
by PsySSA | Jul 30, 2021 | Sexuality and Gender
The Constitutional Court today found the Jon Qwelane article published in 2008 in the Sunday Sun entitled “Call me Names but Gay is Not Okay”, amounts to hate speech. In an unanimous decision and a judgement that was handed down by Justice Majiedt, the offending...
by PsySSA | May 17, 2021 | Current Events, Featured article, Sexuality and Gender
What happens to a dream deferred? It turns into a civil rights movement. Langston Hughes’ poem is an angry meditation on the lives of African Americans in the early 1950s, denied their dream of equality, dignity and prosperity. When deferred: Does it dry up like a...
by PsySSA | Jan 9, 2020 | SEPSA, Sexuality and Gender, Statement
An Open Statement by the Psychological Society of South Africa in support of Comprehensive Sexualities Education (CSE) in South Africa CSE statement An Open Statement by the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) on CSE - Summary of Key Points CSE statement...
by PsySSA | Nov 26, 2019 | Human Rights, PsyTalk 2019 Issue3, Sexuality and Gender
Gender Equality in South Africa: A reality or an Illusion Amori Marais (Research Psychologist / PsySSA’s Sexuality and Gender Division Co-Secretariat / NRF Intern, University of South Africa, Department of Psychology) Regardless of the much needed progress and...
by PsySSA Office | Nov 25, 2019 | General, Human Rights, PsyTalk 2019 Issue3, Sexuality and Gender
Floretta Boonzaier, Melanie Judge, Peace Kiguwa and Chris McLachlan[1] In reflecting on the significance of an International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, it is important that we reflect on several facets of violence that continue to affect how we...
