Awino Okech

"I am attentive to power in knowledge production and transfer processes and explore these dynamics through my methodological and pedagogical choices""

"How people experience the impact of harmful laws that criminalise behaviour is directly impacted by their racial, gender, and class positioning in [their] societies.”="

"You cannot think about being a woman only from the perspective of being a woman."

"The work that we should be doing is to excavate, to rethink the very robust and broad ways that our societies understood gender."

"My feminist politics evolved from childhood as I was raised in a family of strong women."

"I continue to be involved in civil society activism on women's rights and believe in fusing academic research and 'practical' activism."