Bio

Gorata Chengeta is a Johannesburg-based feminist writer, researcher, and lecturer from Gaborone, Botswana. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctoral research project explores the impact of sexual violence on those who experience it, and how these impacts might be shaped by how sexual violence is understood societally. Gorata’s experience as an anti-rape activist during her undergraduate studies has served as her motivation to explore the issues of power, sex, and sexual violence through her Master’s and doctoral research. As a scholar, she values experiential knowledge and emotion, drawing on these in the pursuit of contributing to a more caring world.

Having previously studied Political Studies and Journalism, Gorata is passionate about political education and storytelling. She has written about sexual violence and feminist activism for various media publications. She is also passionate about the preservation of feminist memory and curates an archive centred on anti-rape activism at South African universities on her blog.