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Nada Ali

Nada Mustafa Ali teaches in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Khartoum's Women Street Vendor Cooperatives and the Politics of Care — Awadiya Mahmoud hands out free tea to protesters on May 3, 2019 in Khartoum, Sudan. Awadiya started selling tea in 1983 and by 2013 she had organized numerous community groups for tea sellers and a union to organize them. David Degner/Getty Images.

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Khartoum's Women Street Vendor Cooperatives and the Politics of Care

The everyday activism of Sudan's women-led worker cooperatives.

Nada Ali • 9 min read