by IAM | Apr 30, 2024 | Academic partnerships, Reflections
During April, IAM held our annual workshop with Master students in the Gender, Health, and Religion programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. This incubator aims to create a space for critical, embodied reflection around the complexity and intersectionality of...
by IAM | Mar 25, 2024 | Academic partnerships, Reflections
IAM once again bore witness to how transformational a constructive, intentional engagement with ‘space’ can be during our annual engagement with the Gender Unit Conference and the Master of Divinity Students at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University. Master...
by IAM | Nov 25, 2021 | Academic partnerships, Reflections
By Hanzline R. Davids and Charlene van der Walt Transgender diverse bodies are often excluded and erased from conversations in church, academy, and society. Religious transphobia is systemic and structural, and is constantly informed by heteronormative and gender...
by IAM | Oct 13, 2021 | Academic partnerships, Reflections
Inclusive and Affirming Ministries (IAM), in collaboration with the Gender, Religion and Health Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), hosted an Ecumenical Queer Clergy Think Tank at Devon Valley Hotel in Stellenbosch from 27 September – 01 October...
by IAM | Aug 3, 2021 | Academic partnerships, Impact, Reflections, Sharing the mic
For the past several years, IAM has partnered with the Faculty of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch to host a Human Sexuality and Gender Diversity workshop. This past March, IAM continued this tradition, facilitating the day and a half long workshop with...
by IAM | Nov 16, 2020 | Academic partnerships, Impact, Reflections, Sharing the mic
IAM has worked in close partnership with the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) since 2013. During that time, the partnership has grown and developed to include an annual IAM scholarship for minority sexualities in Africa to support a UKZN student pursuing advanced...