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🇿🇦 South Africa
Affiliation
Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Field of study
Social Sciences
Residencies at STIAS
2020 2nd Semester
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The mask unmasked: a look the gender politics of the face mask - Fellows' seminar by Mehita Iqani

The face mask, by virtue of the global suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and public health attempts to curb the spread, has rapidly become an iconic commodity, that requires pause for critical reflection, said Mehita Iqani of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.