Score a goal for gender equality!

The Gender and Media Diversity Journal: Issue 7, "Gender, Media and Sport" was initiated as a small step to fill the huge gap that exists in analysis of gender, sport and media, both for 2010 and beyond. On the cusp of Soccer 2010 it is essential that we contine the dialogue around how gender plays a role in sport and in the media that covers it. To read more, click here.

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at execassistant@genderlinks.org.

Featured Research of the Month: Gay (In) Tolerance in the Language of Stellenbosch Students: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Campus News Media

The study focuses on aspects of linguistic communication, specifically in media discourse, where “cultural boundaries” are determined by sexual difference and where much misunderstanding appears to be founded in different conceptions of homosexuality. It looks at the theoretical frameworks within which discursive reflection on homosexuality can be studied from an interdisciplinary perspective. Reports in a student newspaper  are examined as well as the discourse in which communication takes place between a heterosexual majority and a homosexual minority.

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GMDC in Rwanda

On January 9th, 2010 the GMDC presented on the panel "Media, Democracy and Peacebuilding" as part of the Intergenerational Youth Forum in Rwanda. Other panelists were Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times and Patrice Mulama of the Rwandan Media High Council.

Take Back the Night
On November 28th, 2009 the GMDC participated in the Take Back the Night mach in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. This event takes place annually across the world, and the GMDC, through Gender Links joined in our solidarity to reclaim public spaces where women have been prey to assualt, rape and even death.

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