Gabeba Baderoon – The pen
· 12 min · S6 E3
Episode Gabeba Baderoon – The pen
After her father’s death, a poet considers her relationship with loss.
Gabeba Baderoon is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Penn State University and is the co-founder of the African Feminist Initiative at the university. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Dream in the Next Body (Kwela Books 2005), A hundred silences (Kwela Books 2006), and most recently, The History of Intimacy (Kwela Books 2018).
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