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The #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and #EndOutsourcing movements are noteworthy for having \u201ca fairly well-defined ideology and view of history<\/a>, which could be described as Black Consciousness combined with anti-imperialism, feminism and, to a lesser degree, socialism.\u201d Of particular interest to many is the feminist leadership and core of these movements. When Africa Is a Country<\/a><\/em> compiled an eleven minute video<\/a> on #FeesMustFall, whom did they interview? Women: Malaika wa Azania, Khanyisa Nomoyi, Ntombikizhona Valela, Julie Nxadi, Siyamthanda Nyulu, Lithle Asante Ngcobozi. For the entire film, the discussion of #FeesMustFall and of the national shut down is conducted and led by women. This has been a feminist uprising, from leadership personnel<\/a> to strategy to implementation.<\/p>\n One sign of this feminist impulse is the insistence of women within the movement to challenge the decision making and discursive practices of the movement itself, and to do so openly, publically and positively. Daily Vox<\/a><\/em> reporter Pontsho Pilane wrote about what she saw at Wits<\/a>, \u201cThe way female student leaders were systematically ignored, sidelined and silenced during the #FeesMustFall movement suggests that once fees have fallen, the next big issue that needs attention is our attitude towards women \u2026 I don\u2019t know what is worse, experiencing overt sexism or just being systematically sidelined by the already patriarchal political environment. Either way, I think it is time that we seriously talk about the erasure and silencing of black women in this student movement and many others like it. Those who believe that black women will put their womanhood at the altar of sacrifice in the name of the \u201ccollective struggle\u201d are blinded by their male privilege and will indeed feel like this is an attack on their person. Black women calling out the patriarchy and misogyny within the movement is not an attack, it is a protection of their humanity \u2013 including their blackness and womanhood \u2013 in its entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n Kagure Mugo, a recent UCT alum, saw the same<\/a>: \u201cWe are living in a South Africa that tried to build itself without young people, without women and too a large extent without the so-called `previously disadvantaged people\u2019, because of the nature of hierarchy within the struggle system, and now we are here. This grading of the suitability of leaders based on age and gender within movements is what has landed us in this position where #FeesMustFall is a national issue, #Marikana is a part of reality, and we still desperately need #16DaysOfAcitvism all year round. We forgot about young people, the worker and women once certain men reached the top. Intersectionality is not an expensive word, it is integral to building up a people because no-one is simply one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n The names of women leaders in this movement keep on keeping on: student leaders like Shaeera Kalla<\/a>, Nompendulo Mkatshwa<\/a>, Jodi Williams<\/a>, Alex Hotz<\/a>; outsourced workers like Moedie Motlanke<\/a>, Cathy Sepahela<\/a>, Zelda Mohamed<\/a>; and reporters like Pontsho Pilani and Ra\u2019eesa Pather<\/a> all attest to the centrality of intersectionality in this movement.<\/p>\n