What Girls Want: A Podcast
Adolescent girls, young women and gender-diverse young people leading COVID-19 responses and recovery interventions with intersectional feminist leadership and strategies.
What Girls Want: A Podcast
Episode 21 - Economic Justice is a feminist issues: a young feminists perspective on Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill2024
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On this episode we spoke to Justine Wanda from Kenya!
We reflected on and unpacked:
- Kenya’s 2023 and 2024 Finance Bills and how they affect Kenyans
- The #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests, direct action and the power of youth taking the lead
- The gendered implications of the 2024 Finance Bill
- Kenya’s public debt, corruption and sustainable development
- Police brutality and classism
- How the 2024 Finance Bill threatens the prospects of ending gendered inequalities
Justine Wanda is a standup comedian, satirist and writer. She’s proficient in dark and observational humour and has appeared on Showmax’s Roast House and Comedy Riot. Justine has also performed on various stages around the continent. She’s the creator of a web satire series called Fake Woke With Justine that provides hilarious commentary on the Kenyan social, economic and political experience.