This ethnographic study - grounded in the lived experiences and viewpoints of five womxn from the Cape Winelands - aims to document South African perspectives on Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women A Movement Forgot. Through deeply engaged narrative interviews, the research analyses how these womxn implement and reveal feminist thinking within a cultural, traditional, and socio-political context of their everyday lives as self-identifying Coloured womxn from lower-income communities. This study illuminates everyday feminist discourses in the Winelands, uncovering the distinctive forms of care, resistance, and solidarity that are rooted in the ghetto. Findings underscore that ghetto feminism in a South African context accentuated survival politics, community-based activism, and a deconstruction of mainstream feminist movements that have often bypassed class, race, vicinity, and culture.
This research enlists an a/r/tographic framework, blending artistic expression, pedagogy, and research to magnify engagement with my collaborators' feminist praxis and stories. By moving beyond traditional academic boundaries, I engaged specifically with images, writing, and social media as creative modes of inquiry. Allowing feminist praxis to emerge not only through spoken narratives, but through alledaagse visual and digital expressions. In addition, I, as the author, incorporate a narrative of my own experiences and positionality, creating a reflexive layer that situates this work within both a collective and personal context.