Gender justice is a lifetime routine, not a 16-day performance

EVERY year from November 25 to December 10, there is an international campaign focused on raising awareness and preventing violence against girls and women.  

It is the object of this opinion article to engage in long-term thinking regarding this seasonal expenditure and labour that involves protests and marches, community outreach and engagement, policy discussions, and advocacy and support for the survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).  

The argument anon will endeavour to look at the issue of the promotion and protection of gender justice with the mind with a window, not a mind with a mirror, because gender justice is not spontaneous like making a cup of coffee, neither is it an event that can be packaged within 16 days of activism against GBV, but a process that ought to be folded into the cognitive structures of children right from early education development to tertiary education. 

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