Voices of Women inherited its archive from the Amazwi Abesifazane-Voices of Women project that ran over 10 years – collating about 3000 women’s narratives and their textiles. We have grown this collective voice, since establishing the Voices of Women Museum in 2012, by including communities still invisiblized by politics and a desire to exclude.
The Voices of Women has been able to sustain a low but effective profile, maintaining its intentions – to hold in trust the stories of diverse South African women archived in the collection and to position these stories within the public and sometimes more intimate spaces. The narrative is our own interspersed by academic and/or ordinary, collective and individual thoughts and ideas.
