Cassandra Roxburgh - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Cassandra Roxburgh is a transfeminine freelance journalist. She has covered various topics, including LGBTQI+ rights, climate change, and politics, and written cultural criticism of popular TV shows and video games. She took a meandering path to pursue her dream of being a writer. During part of her university career (2015 – 2017), she was the editor of South African Music, a popular music blog in South Africa. However, she has to resign from the role to finish her LLB in 2018. In 2019, Cassandra started her LLM thesis investigating the possibility of an international regulatory framework to hold multinational companies accountable for their environmental harms in the Global South. While working on her thesis, she worked for a legal technology company (2019 – 2021) as a systems administrator designing decision trees for contract automation. Following this role, she worked at a corporate intelligence firm (2021), writing due diligence reports focused on Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic and political environment. In this role, she served as the Chairperson of their EDI committee, where she championed policies focused on creating a more favourable environment for transgender employees. Cassandra juggles multiple works-in-progress in her spare time, ranging from a non-fiction book examining the history of transgender representation in speculative fiction and several short stories grappling with a future after climate change and corporate environmental exploitation.

Content

Total articles 10

• The West’s De-Growth Narrative Poisons The Climate Debate Across Africa

  By Cassandra Roxburgh| Minority Africa Verified The EU and US are talking over Africa, rebuking the construction of new coal power plants in South Africa, and new oil prospecting in the Congo Basin precious peat forest. This is the West’s ‘De-growth’ narrative that it is trying to foster over Africa. On paper there’s nothing wrong with it: anyone drilling for oil in Congo Basin’s peat forest is trying to suffocate the earth’s lungs.

  By Cassandra Roxburgh · Minority Africa

  Oct. 10, 2022

• Teen suicides are a clarion call to protect queer children

  By Cassandra Roxburgh| Mail & Guardian Verified The queer community is still reeling from the tragic death of Tiro Moalusi. The Soweto teenager took his own life on 16 August after he was allegedly humiliated by a student teacher because of his sexuality. The Gauteng department of education has suspended the accused student teacher amidst an investigation by a South African Council for Educators officer. This is not the first time a student has committed suicide this year after being bullied at school.

  By Cassandra Roxburgh · Mail & Guardian

  Sep. 08, 2022

• “Queering the internet”: The importance of transgender online spaces in South Africa

  By Cassandra Roxburgh| Minority Africa Verified I started transitioning in 2020 during the Covid19 pandemic. At the time, I was living with my parents and had not come out to them as transgender. Social media allowed me to connect with a network of other trans people in South Africa going through similar experiences. Other trans-feminine people provided resources for starting hormone replacement therapy, while trans masculine people shared their old clothing with me.

  By Cassandra Roxburgh · Minority Africa

  Aug. 01, 2022

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Minority Africa

Minority Africa is a digital publication providing solutions news content on African minority communities and persons using Data, Immersive, and Mobile journalism. From across Africa, we cover women, sexual, religious, and ethnic minorities, persons living with disabilities, and refugees through a solutions journalism lens.