This form of violation is perpetrated with the explicit intention of ‘curing’ the lesbian of her
love for other women. Although many heterosexual survivors of rape attest to the stated intentions of their assailants as punitive (they have done something wrong, and thus ‘deserve’ rape), survivors of ‘curative rape’ make it clear that their attackers were interested in humiliating and punishing them for their choice of sexual identity and lifestyle and in ‘transforming’ them – by coercion – into heterosexual women.
Palestinians of African Descent
December 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This story was taken for Arthur Neslen’s book In Your Eyes a Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian a collection of interviews about Palestinian identity. Sadly, for space reasons, it could not be published there. But Souciant is happy to give it a home. In Your Eyes a Sandstorm will be released next week.
Saartjie Baartman & other herstories of South African women*
July 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Women in South African History by Nomboniso Gasa (Ed) published by HSRC Press, 2007. Women in South African History traces the lives of South African women from the pre-colonial, pre-union period (mid 18th century) through to the post-apartheid beginnings and present day South Africa. It is written in four thematic parts: Women in the pre-colonial [...]
History of Black South African Literature
July 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A history of Black South African literature – but only two women writers mentioned? Bessie Head and Miriam Tlali. I am sure there are more? The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in [...]
Telling Uneasy Stories: El Negro of Banyoles #3
March 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
We start this weekend with a continuation of our discussion about El Negro. Since El Negro’s display was of a dead body I will at this juncture expand the notion of hybridity we spoke about last week. I think we can expand the notion from binary form to include another element. That is to [...]
Shady politics of GayMiddleEast
June 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
Last March, Pink Watching Israel published an article in which they exposed the website Gay Middle East as having “shady politics” with close Zionist connections and “who has never carried any of the anti-apartheid statements by LGBT groups in the region. ” That the largest Middle East LGBT (well, G mostly)”grassroots news” website is run [...]
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