<i>“Everything is written there; there should be something that is going to follow”</i>: A girlfesto as a strategy for girl-led activism in rural communities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article reports on the work of a group of young African women teachers from rural South Africa who worked with a Girlfesto that focuses on addressing gender-based violence (GBV). An international group of girls and women who had come together for the Circles within Circles retreat in Montebello, Canada, developed the Girlfesto. Using the lens of girl activism in the context of policy dialogue, we offer an analysis of the young women teachers’ engagement with and speaking back to the girl-informed Girlfesto. After having read the Montebello Girlfesto the 11 young women, working in small groups In a workshop setting, were asked what they thought about the Girlfesto, what they could add to it, and what they could do with it in South African rural contexts. The feedback and ensuing group discussion were recorded and transcribed. Using thematic analysis, several themes relating to young women as sociopolitical actors were identified: activism as starting with themselves; taking the Girlfesto to the community; and actioning the Girlfesto for social change. The young teachers revealed their growing political awareness about the complexities of going beyond words to a practice of activism to address GBV in the schools they teach at and in the communities in which they live. Beyond inserting their voices in the Girlfesto, the discussions enabled the young women teachers to reflect on their tools for girl-led activism and policy dialogue in schools and communities. The findings suggest that enabling girls and young women to engage in transnational work focusing on addressing GBV creates a space to learn from each other and to refine their learning to suit a particular local context.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".