A paper on silenced herstories and queer-ecological resistance in African women’s writing, presented at the AEGIS workshop in Leicester.
On 8 September 2026, Dr. Dawit presented “(Re)writing Silenced Herstories: Feminist Counter-Archives, Embodied Memory, and Queer-Ecological Resistance in Contemporary African Women’s Writing” at the workshop Female, Queer and Nonbinary Voices in African Literatures: Bodies, Ecologies, Herstories, hosted by the University of Leicester with AEGIS.
The workshop was organised by Sreya Datta, Dorothée Boulanger and Megan Fourqurean, and brought together scholars of African literatures working on gender, the body and ecology.