Gavaza Maluleke is a lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in digital activism, transnational feminisms, decolonial theory, migration, gendered violence, masculinities and media studies in Africa. Her current work focuses on digital activism and gendered violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa. 

As a fellow Dr. Maluleke’s book-length project seeks to analyze women’s digital activism against gendered violence with a focus on hashtag feminisms in post-apartheid South Africa. Employing a digital ethnographic approach, which relies on analyzing textual and multimedia online communications, this project follows the online articulations of womxn speaking out against gendered violence in the hashtags that have gone viral on South African Twitter from 2015-2022.