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*** Playing with "Normal"
by Yvette Abrahams


***Review: Reading Zanele Muholi's Faces and Phases and Difficult Love
by Nadia Sanger

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* mapping our histories: a visual history of black lesbians in South Africa

* (un)imagined bodies and identities

* black african queers for bamako
note that part of this text are extracted from 'Skhona' transcript published in 2007 for book production I

* ngiyopha

* dictionary of quotations

* what don't you see when you look at us?
(a collaboration - project prepared for African Sexualities Reader by Sylvia Tamale...)

* refusing to fade in obscurity

It has been two months since our only outspoken lesbian soccer team, the Chosen Few , came back from winning bronze at the International Gay & Lesbian Football Association (IGLFA) tournament in London. This was the team's second bronze medal after winning at the Gay Games Chicago in 2006. Chosen Few is making African herstory for all of us.

Fast forward now to last Wednesday, October 22, when the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) held their annual international meeting in Africa's pinkest city: Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting, which was organized at the Ritz Hotel in Sea Point, took place one day after the 2006 brutal murder of Zoliswa Nkonyana finally went to court in Khayelitsha township, the same place where the 19-year-old lesbian was stabbed, stoned and beaten to death by a group of men for being a female homosexual. Attending both the court hearing in Khayelitsha and the FGG meeting in Sea Point, the racialized and classed dichotomy between grassroots community organizing and international queer membership strikes me yet again. At the Khayelitsha Magistrate Court, it was our black sisters who took the risk of outing themselves to violent homophobes by protesting against hate crimes and the murder of a young lesbian. But these very same women who continue the struggle for social justice and human rights in South Africa were conspicuously absent from the FGG guest and participant list.
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Articles/Reviews

* Zanele Muholi goes nude for the show by Edward Tsumele
source: sowetan
date: december 4, 2009

* Honoured for capturing truths about society by Smangele Mzizi
source: behind the mask
date: Oct. 22, 2009

* Artists look at domestic violence by Collen Maepa
source: city of johannesburg - arts & culture newspaper
date: Aug. 3, 2009

* Candid take on life in marginal lane by Zingi Mkefa
source: sunday times
date: Aug. 2, 2009

* See us now by Annette Bayne
source: citizen
date:July 21, 2009

* What does it mean to be an African lesbian?
by sokari ekine
source: www.kenyaimagine.com
date: July 17, 2009

* Perceptions challanged by Anthea Buys
source: Mail & Guardian
date:July 10-16, 2009

* Provocative images that push the boundaries by Edward Tsumele
source: www.sowetan.co.za
date: July 17, 2009

* Living through the lens by Ali Zafar
source: www.ryersononline.ca
date: Jan. 23, 2008

* Township herstory by Jean Brundrit
A photography workshop allowed women to showcase their personal experience of being lesbian in South Africa, writes Jean Brundrit.
source: Mail & Guardian
date: Sep 13, 2008

* Lesbiche stuprate per il loro bene by Stefania Ragusa
source: alias
May 31, 2008