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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Africa &#8211; Creative Arts</title>
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		<title>F-Word interview with Senzeni Marasela</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/senzeni-marasela/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senzeni Marasela]]></category>
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South African political artist Senzeni Marasela uses art to examine her personal and collective memory.  In this interview with the director of Deveron Arts, Claudia Zeiske, Marasela discusses her work on women&#8217;s self-perception and insecurities about their bodies and how these differ between women of colour and white women. 
Women have insecurities about their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senegalese film director, Mahaman Johnson Traore: &#8211; RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/senegalese-film-director-mahaman-johnson-traore-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FESPACO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahaman Johnson Traore]]></category>
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Senegalese film director and one of the founders of the Pan-African Film festival [FESPACO], Mahaman Johnson Traore, died last Monday.  
Mark Coles talks to Keith Shire on the work of Johnson Traore, particularly his films which addressed &#8220;the politics of women&#8217;s position in their societies&#8221;.  Listen to the interview below. 


Via Bombastic Element
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		<title>Confronting censorship in the face of &#8220;hyper-visibility&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/confronting-hyper-visibility-in-the-face-of-censorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Lesbian and Bisexual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender DynamiX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lulu Xingwana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nandipha Mntambo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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Last week South African Arts &#38; Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana walked out of  the Innovative Women exhibition claiming photographs by gender activist Zanele Muholi  and Nandipha Mntambo were pornographic.  Whilst the Minister is entitled to her own opinion she must be mindful of her status as a minister of government and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two women = two artists</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/international-womens-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/international-womens-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ife Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shymaa Kamel]]></category>

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Ife Franklin is an African American  artist and sculptor,  who designs and dyes her own fabrics using the  Nigerian Adire method.  Below is a collage created for Black Pride New England in 2007 to reflect the beauty of a community that is &#8220;lovely, healthy and strong&#8221;.  The second photo is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Analysis and Mis/Rules of Beauty&#8230;A pitch for the African and Indian Ocean choreographic encounters.</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dance-analysis-and-misrules-of-beauty-a-pitch-for-the-african-and-indian-ocean-choreographic-encounters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dance-analysis-and-misrules-of-beauty-a-pitch-for-the-african-and-indian-ocean-choreographic-encounters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q&#39;dance</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Dance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qudus Onikeku]]></category>

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Qudus Onikeku &#8220;Q&#8217;dance&#8221; was born in Lagos and is a graduate of National Higher School of Circus arts, France.  As a dancer, acrobat and writer, he is part of a new generation of critical thinkers and creators springing up from the African continent.  I spent 10 days with  Qudus in Lagos in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proudly African &amp; Transgender: Self-Portraits in Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/proudly-african-transgender-self-portraits-in-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty Netherlands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skipper Mogapi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa]]></category>

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As part of the Proudly African &#38; Transgender  exhibition by Gabrielle Le Roux, each person has written a short self-portrait on being transgender and on the exhibition itself.  Below are their stories of their lives to go with the portraits drawn by artist and activist for social justice  Gabrielle Le Roux.
The importance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proudly African &amp; Transgender: A cultural intervention for social justice</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/proudly-african-transgender-a-cultural-intervention-for-social-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/proudly-african-transgender-a-cultural-intervention-for-social-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skipper Mogapi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=6777</guid>
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Portraits and narratives of ten transgendered Africans from seven countries in East and Southern Africa by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with IGLHRC exhibited for the first time by Amnesty International &#8211; Amsterdam. 

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		<title>Proudly African &amp; Transgender: Portraits</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/proudly-african-transgender/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/proudly-african-transgender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skipper Mogapi]]></category>
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Portraits and narratives of ten transgendered Africans from seven countries in East and Southern Africa by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with IGLHRC exhibited for the first time by Amnesty International &#8211; Amsterdam.
Zimbabwe: Amanda

Uganda: Julius

South Africa: Bongi

Burundi: Flavia

Uganda:  Victor Mukasa

Namibia:  Madam Jholerina

Kenya:  Marsha

Uganda:  Salongo

Namibia:  Silva

Botswana:  Skipper Mogapi


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		<title>Desexualising the mind: 1 &#8211; Being [t]here</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/desexualising-the-mind-1-being-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/desexualising-the-mind-1-being-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caster Semenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saartjie Baartman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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Zanele Muholi speaks on the sexualised gaze perpetuated on Black women&#8217;s bodies from   [Sara] Saartjie Baartman,  Caster Semenya to Zanele&#8217;s own Queer body.   She asks &#8221; What does it mean to have Black bodies in foreign spaces and how those bodies face that debate?&#8221; 

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		<title>Solange</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/solange/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/solange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Quarcoopome</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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Sol
Ange
Earth
Angel
Deep brown eyes set in khol innocent despair cast in stone
Your high arched brow asks sweet questions of hard life
Sol-ange with feet that cannot fly tread softly on master’s heart while the others run
Pounding the red earth smooth beneath the soles of soldiers’ boots beneath
The souls of fighting folk
Solange of the delicate thighs and soft [...]]]></description>
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