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Amrita Pande
Amrita Pande is a lecturer in the Sociology department at University of Cape Town. Her research primarily focuses on globalisation, gendered bodies and gendered work spaces, new reproductive technologies and new forms of social movements
After 8 Sistahood: reclaiming nights and feminist joy in segregated cities
What began as a response to gendered fear in Cape Town has become the After 8 Sistahood—a movement transforming public spaces, confronting spatial apartheid, and asserting…
Everyday technology is being used for genocide in Gaza
Technologies evolved in peacetime can become lethal during conflicts, war and genocide
How to judge an AI-programmed genocide
The Israeli Defence Forces’ use of AI for killing shows the urgent need for international regulation
Are surrogate and IVF babies ‘essential’ in a pandemic?
Now is the time to examine how reproductive health in South Africa is riddled by inequities based on race and class
Want your eggs black or white?
The fertility industry and technology are raising difficult questions about race
Labour law redefines parenthood
The definition includes adoptive parents and commissioning parents in surrogacy cases
Human egg providers are changing the way we think
South Africa is a popular destination for an ‘egg safari’, and women travel abroad to donate eggs