Newsletter
Postscripts
A Month-end roundup of what’s been happening in feminist circles, Shamillah’s work and recommended reading.
Postscripts from July 2026
Let us remember the small, defiant acts that sustain movements: mutual aid, feminist legal clinics, cross-border feminist delegations, research that documents harms and traces responsibility, and culture that keeps dignity alive.
Postscripts from June 2026
In this issue of Postscripts, we honour feminists of the global majority who continue to hold uncomfortable questions with courage. They are working, writing, organising, and resisting in ways that insist on accountability, justice, and care; even when institutions have fallen short.
Postscripts from May 2026
- Why Indigenous and Global Majority stories must come from ourselves
- Our work this month (News)
- Feminist inspiration (Quotes and recommended reading)
- Radical acceptance – lessons from my mother (Blog post)
- Namibian President’s pathbreaking actions against Western financial dependency and corruption: A new model for Africa? (Blog post)
- What if you treated yourself like you mattered too? Join Life as an Activist Project
Postscripts from April 2026
- April: A month of birthdays, launches and collective change
- Our work this month (News)
- Feminist inspiration (Quotes and recommended reading)
- How to reaffirm boundaries (Blog post)
- What we are carrying: Rethinking racial trauma and healing (Blog post)
Postscripts from March 2026
- A call to action for the children in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran: When Will the Children Play Again?
- Free Course: Your Life as an Activist Project
- Feminist Inspirations (Quotes)
- Feminist Library: Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination
- BlogPost: Unleashing the Power of Radical Imagination to Sustain Hope and Possibility
- Geopolitical Insights: The Silent Crisis: Iran’s Poisoned Schoolgirls and the Forgotten Children of the Majority World
Postscripts from February 2026
In February, the month of love, which in 2026 also marks the beginning of periods of introspection, sacrifice and awareness of the suffering of others, I want to celebrate the importance of connection.
Postscripts from January 2026
Sisters, comrades, dream-weavers of the Global Majority: as the sun rises on 2026, let us gather in this shared breath of fragile possibility. The new year arrives not as a blank slate, but as a tender shoot pushing through cracked earth – vulnerable to frost, yet insistent with life.
Postscripts from December 2025
This month we celebrate the feminists of the Global Majority. We are the proof that hope is not a passive wish, but a practice. It is the community organiser planting seeds in scorched earth, the writer documenting the erased story, the grandmother teaching the old laws under a new moon, the protester standing her ground. Our work is a tune without the words: a constant, often thankless, act of spiritual and political defiance.
Postscripts from November 2025
I hope you savour this penultimate issue of Postscripts of 2025, my monthly news round-up of my work and the world in which it happens, as a feminist, social justice coach and process architect. Enjoy our offerings on wellbeing for activists, feminist inspirations and insights into the geopolitical world in which the Global Majority fights for justice.
Postscripts from October 2025
“Our power lies in our refusal to be spectators. It is in our offering of mutual aid, boycotts, our education, our intentional joy and our solidarity. We press our palms against the soft walls of each other’s living, holding the line.” — Shamillah Wilson
Postscripts from September 2025
“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.” — Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and African feminist activist
Consider what small actions you can take to contribute to justice and social transformation wherever you are. Explore this issue, share your reflections, and let’s find ways to build a world where we flourish even in the face of hardship.
Postscripts from August 2025
In August, Women’s Month is commemorated in South Africa, my base and place of birth. So it is fitting that, in this edition, we celebrate the women of working-class communities whose spirit and strength, in the face of systemic abuse, define my life and purpose.
Postscripts from July 2025
In the Global South, it is mid-winter. But the many difficult upheavals in the world suggest a more turbulent season. As an activist coach, I am grappling with what I need to support myself and the women with whom I work as we bear witness to unbearable human suffering and experience the increasing shutting down of democratic spaces.
Postscripts from June 2025
Amid increasing conflict and devastation in war zones around the globe, we look at ways to embrace feminist approaches to activism and remind ourselves to keep speaking up for what is right.
Postscripts from May 2025
Postscripts is a year old this month. Thank you for accompanying me on this journey of connection with you. Here’s to many more years of Postscripts and to living a life of freedom and growth.
Postscripts from April 2025
Our theme for the past month was Earth, Liberation, and Decolonizing Sustainability.
April marks Earth Month, a time to reflect on the state of our planet and the urgent need for environmental justice. But this reflection cannot be divorced from the colonial legacy that has shaped our ecological crisis. We explore this.
Also, I celebrate my birthday this month, and am giving away x3 ebooks.
Postscripts from March 2025
Our theme for March was Feminism Beyond Borders:
Intersectionality and Global Solidarities.
- We celebrated International Women’s Month
- Explored revolutionary resilience
- Shamillah shared her thoughts and geopolitical insights from around the world
Postscripts from February 2025
Our theme for the month was Radical Love and Solidarity:
- Geopolical insights from around the world (USA, Uganda, Congo, Sudan)
- Video: Feminism and activism: The lessons we’ve learnt
- Call for global feminist solidarity
Postscripts from January 2025
Our theme for January was Feminist Community. Features this month include:
- A call to continued Global South Solidarity during the fragile truce in Gaza
- Shamilla’s recent work around the world
- Feminists and climate justice
- Social Media censorship and the battle for hearts and minds
Postscripts from December 2024
Our theme for December was Reflecting & Visioning Forward. Features this month include:
- Glow with Gratitude (video)
- My month in the field
- Farewell Nikki Giovanni
- Reflections, lessons and goals (blog post)
- Who’s defending democracy now? (blog post)
- 2025 Literary wishlist inspo – feminist edition
Postscripts from November 2024
Our theme for November was Gratitude and Community Care. In this issue we look at:
- Shamillah’s work in the field this month (South Africa and Spain)
- Gender and public spaces, open source articles
- Why BRICS gives me hope
- Reclaiming ancient knowledge (TEDx Talk)
- Revolutionary Hope
- Quotes to accompany our activist journeys
- Updated book on personal growth – FREE DOWNLOAD
Postscripts from October 2024
Our theme for October was Decolonising Activism. In this issue we look at:
- Building solidarity networks
- Reflections from the field
- The privilege of having a choice
- Making decolonial activism a priority
- Feminist inpirations
Postscripts from September 2024
Our theme for September was Back to Basics – Social Justice Coaching. Highlights include:
- Radical in-the-moment leadership (blog post)
- Reflections on resilience (video)
- Finding joy to balance the serious nature of social justice work
- Feminist Focus: State of global feminism
- Feminist inpirations and reading recommendations
Postscripts from August 2024
Our theme for August was Celebrating Women’s Month.
- On 9 August 2024, South Africa celebrated Women’s Day, and it was International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. We look briefly at these.
- My blog, Reclaiming Play as Resistance, is a reminder of the tools I share to help you achieve balance and find joy in the face of injustice.
Postscripts from July 2024
Our theme for July was Pan-Africanism, the call to a shared African identity and solidarity for economic, social, cultural and political freedom and the empowerment of all people of African descent.
- Find out more about why Pan-Africanism is important today in What’s happening with Pan-Africanism?
- Meet some of the trailblazing, fearless feminists whose work illuminates the essence of Pan-Africanism.
- Read about elections in Rwanda and Venezuela in What’s happening in global majority countries?
Postscripts from June 2024
Our theme for June was Inclusive Activism.
Looking back, June 2024 brought a bittersweet blend of causes to celebrate as well as pause for concern. It certainly gave us a lot to think about as feminists and social justice activists. In South Africa, where 16 June is Youth Day, we celebrate Youth Month. Our young queer community extend it to celebrate Pride Month and the country also marks Men’s Mental Health in June.
Postscripts from May 2024
Our theme for Shamillah Wilson communication in May was Mental Health Awareness. Our newsletter is a wrap-up of this, with insights and inspiration on self-care and wellbeing.
In this issue, we also feature what’s new at Shamillah Wilson coaching — sharing our podcasts, blog posts and quotes from feminists on the subject — and highlight FRIDA’s Happiness Manifesto.