28 Years Old
28 years old, that’s how old I am turning today. Gees I am really getting old and I must admit, this time I feel old-really old. This is the time when I should be spending my nights cuddled up to…
Why African LGBTI communities should say NO! to US imperialism.
The US Embassy in Nairobi recently announced that it would be holding “the first ever annual celebration of LGBT Pride at their embassy on June 26” . Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward LGBT people to promote their self-affirmation,…
Foot for love : Thokozani Football Club in Paris
Thokozani FC made it to Paris – they lost their first game but are in good spirits. Yesterday they met with lesbians of colour in Paris which included a visit to the museum where Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman’s body was…
“Inventory on Being” – James Baldwin
A spoken word and jazz collaboration from “A Lovers Question” – David Linx Via Geoffrey Philps
The Week on Sunday (weekly)
Pambazuka – How USAID undermines democracy in Haiti The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is an arm of the US State Department. Founded in 1961, USAID serves as a ‘velvet glove’ for US foreign policy. The political bias of…
The pain we all share – in memory of Thapelo Makhutle
A beautiful and moving film that is both a celebration of Thapelo’s young life and a mourning that he and his family should suffer from such a horrific act of violence. “Each time a Lesbian, Gay man, Transgender, Intersex, Queer…
South Africa, Liberia and Sudan
First published in Pambazuka News 21/6/2012 In the early hours of June 9, 2012, a 23-year-old gay man, Thapelo Makhutle was mutilated and murdered in his home in Kuruman, Northern Cape, South Africa. In the same week, on June 4,…
A Dangerous Visibility – In memory of Thapelo Makhutle
“i’m sad, hurt, … just wrong i really became overwhelmed by the whole experience.” [ZM] On Friday, 15th June 2012 hundreds of family and friends gathered at St Mary’s Anglican Church, Kuruman, together to mourn the death of their son and comrade, Thapelo…
Liberia: Going Home the Same Way They Came: Buduburam on My Mind as D-Day Nears
Perched on vast acres of land dotted with concrete buildings marked in colorful chalk, Buduburam Refugee Camp on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, has always been a place of transit for Liberians. Camp dwellers are like expectant passengers on a…
Miriam Makeba: A healer through music
A musical and family commentary on the life of Miriam Makeba – “I do not talk politics, I say the truth”! A beautiful and special film. In 1963 she spoke to the United Nations and became a figurehead of the…
The Week on Sunday (weekly)
Signposts from Al Qaws: A Decade of Building a Queer Palestinian Discourse | Bekhsoos How can we summarize “LGBT and Queer Palestinian Activism in the Past Ten Years from an Internal Perspective of Activists who Have Worked on the LGBTQ…
Timeline of corporate human rights abuses in Nigeria
Platform have created this excellent Timeline which documents the actions and interactions of all those directly and indirectly involved with the exploration and exploitation of oil in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The timeline is based on the examination…
Texting Poetry – 3: Fear !!
Fear!! A driver fucked up with Fear; he just started, Today & all, the poor imp. Happily, he brought into it -A neighbourhood’s illness They call you man, miss All cower what will come? So when he broke hard…
The murder of Thapelo Makhutle
I am stunned, sickened. 23 year old Thapelo Makutle [Queen Bling] was murdered – beheaded in the early hours of the 9th June 2012, the second murder in less than a week. Neil Daniels, 36 body was found burned and…
Africa still pumping oil in the age of solar!
An insightful talk by Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey – “Africa still pumping oil in the age of solar”. Nnimmo advocates keeping the oil in the soil and strong discounts the argument that oil is in any way beneficial to Nigeria…
Angela Davis & Toni Morrison in conversation
Angela Davis & Toni Morrison in conversation on Literacy and Liberation.
The Week on Sunday (weekly)
The Project | Pentecostal Aesthetics The research project on the West African Pentecostal Diasporas in Italy started in the 2008 and addresses the social impact of African Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in European cities and societies shaped by Catholicism. This…
Foot for love : Thokozani Football Club
“Foot For Love” is an initiative to promote the fight against violence and discrimination targeting lesbians, particularly through sport. To do so, we invited to Paris a delegation of the Thokozani Football Club during a week punctuated by sport, cultural and activist…
Pavilion: Transphobia – between the skin-head from Stoke & the dreadlocked sadist.
Pavilion a short story by Diriye Osman Cat Power “a hard-boiled, six-foot Somali tranny” works in a mental hospital in London reminding me of the now closed Friern Barnet Hospital. I wonder how many Black and Queer folks passed through…
Texting poetry – 2: Being…….
Being… I am a being in the world, I am a “who-woman” being, a sentient being A spec of dust; a grain of Sand or a tear drop! My own little dot of Oceania. I know my duty. I am…
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