About

Queering myself
I am a writer who is afraid of writing;
I am an speaker who is  afraid to speak to more than two people at a time;
I am an activist who is full of courage but always fearful;
I am a reader who reads and dreams at the same time;
I am an educator who is constantly learning;
I am real and fake and often cannot tell the difference at a given moment;
I love people but feel safer on my own;
I am always on the run but cannot hide;
my home is where my heart is which may or may not be where my home is;
I love to take photos but after 20 years still cannot get it right – but just occasionally very occasionly I get it right and that makes all the failures worthwhile;
I am full of confidence and drowning in self-doubt;
each day without fail I wake up with anxiety but I always manage to make it through the day;
I am visible and therefore vulnerable to shame;
I am invisable and therefore vulernable to being silenced;
I am connected but full of disconnections to people, to situations, to experiences.
I have a longing yet my belly is full.  I am imperfect but yearn to be perfect.

I have passed through many places, created many spaces, loved many people,  made many wrongs but in all my life I do not know what I have done. This is me and with whom I must live with on the most intimate of terms  - but I know with the certainity that  night follows day that I am not alone in this.

Sokari – founder and principle writer on Black Looks [June 2004], free from the tyranny of editors and other censors.  See my comment policy below.

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The new banner: All the people pictured have touched my life in many different ways. Each of them has used their voices, words, music and actions to stand up for social justice and the struggle for humanity and rights.

From left to right:
Audrey Lorde – Black feminist, lesbian, mother, poet

Miriam Makeba - Mama Africa, singer and anti-apartheid activist

Busi Sigasa – Busi was a young South Africa lesbian – a rape survivor and living with HIV who dreamed of being a poet and writer. She died on 12th March 2007 in her home in Soweto.

Victor Mukasa - A Ugandan transgender person and human rights defender. Victor has been one of the most consistent and active human rights defenders for LGBTIQ rights and decriminalization in Uganda and across Africa.

Eudy Simelane – A young South African lesbian and soccer player who was raped and murdered on April 28th, 2008.

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti - Nigerian feminist and activist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen and against colonialism, traditional and military dictatorship.

COMMENT POLICY

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