Online
I blog and write for various media and news platforms on the web. Here are a few you can have a look at:
- Daily Maverick
- The Milken Institute COVID19 Africa Watch
- News Deeply
- W24.co.za
- Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust Blog
- Mail and Guardian Online
- Radio Netherlands Africa
- City press
- Saturday Star
- Mail and Guardian Women
- Medium
- Elle Online
- The African Women’s Development Fund
- Mail and Guardian Thoughtleader
VISI
- The Mother Lode, 2020
- Home is Where the Books Are, 2016
Elle Magazine:
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – August 2018
- Empowerment: Just the Beginning – February 2015
Cosmopolitan Magazine:
- Can you watch trashy TV and still be a feminist? – August 2018
- #TamponTaxMustFall – May 2018
The Mail and Guardian
- Anonymity a Rape Survivor’s Right (February 7 2011),
- Sharing, caring and being inspired by Eve (25 July 2011),
- Cumtree cliches and boorish attitude as sexy as catching a virus (3 August 2012)
Marie Claire
Oprah Magazine
- O Heroine interview with India Baird (January 2012),
- O Heroine interview with Romy Titus (February 2012),
- Article on teenage pregnancy (May 2012),
- Everybody needs good neighbours (July 2012),
- Our Future’s In Good Hands (September 2012),
- O Heroine interview with Sheri Brynaud (November 2012),
- Hear, hear! (Article on the women who have had us talking in 2012) (December 2012)
Focus: What gains have been made for women since 1994 (2015)
The Big Issue: Sisters are doing it to themselves (2013 Collectors Edition)
If you are interested in commissioning me to write an article for your publication, please contact me.
Jen Thorpe 
[…] Even during this time the grindstone continued. I worked with the OECD on doing a legislative review of the gender rights laws of five African countries for their SIGI database. It’s a great resource for researchers so check it out. In this time I also worked with the Shukumisa Coalition on drafting a history document for the coalition looking at its history from its inception in the early 2000s, to the work it does now. Having been a member myself since 2010, it was a really rewarding project. In addition to this work I kept up with my blog and opinion piece writing for W24.co.za and Women and Girls Hub. More on that, here. […]
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