“The truth is, ‘Ngiyesaba’ – I’m shit scared” – Rape and Traumatic Recall

April 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, Apartheid, Gender Violence, News Roundup, Queer Politics, QueerCide, sexual violence, Sexuality, South Africa Tagged With: , , , ,

Gloom Glamour Graves

March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Tweet When we lay for the last time to rest the whole event is filled and felt with many emotions and for the one being sent away only silence prevails. Yet so much more happens in these spaces that are sometimes filled with much solemn, sullenness, unspoken resistance and weaknesses. The gloom that fills the [...]

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, African Feminism, Crea(c)tive Senses, Queer Politics, QueerCide, South Africa Tagged With: ,

Remembering Busi

March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Tweet Busi died on the 12th March 2007.  One of the few poems she published on her blog “My Realities”  was “Remember Me When I Am Gone” – This year I forgot the day but not Busi.  I think of her often as she was.   In November 2006 she wrote “No one can take [...]

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, African Feminism, Busi, Crea(c)tive Senses, HIV/AIDS, Poetry, QueerCide, South Africa Tagged With: , ,

Gendercide

February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Ova the poetry of Bernedette Muthien

Tweet From Bernedette Muthien gendercide it took a full week of straitjacketing generations of genocidal femicidal trauma for the clay dam wall to explode and flood me in torrents of collective grief a poet with no words a lifelong activist struck dumb i choke on love for the dead thousands of beautiful women and children a [...]

Filed Under: 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, Action Alert, Africa , African Feminism, E-Activism, Gender Violence, Poetry, QueerCide, sexual violence, South Africa, violence against women Tagged With: , , , ,

Outrage! & One Billion Rising, Whats the Point? Lessons from GBV movement building in Haiti

February 16, 2013 By 3 Comments

Tweet From Thought Leader – Talia Meer asks what is the point of  ”1 billion Rising” and from Women and Beyond the Global – Wondering about Outrage! beyond personal gratification? Particularly when it is selective, ie where was the outrage when Rape Crisis centers were closed, or are are in the process of being closed? [...]

Filed Under: #IRP13, 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, Africa LGBTI, Gender Violence, Haiti, QueerCide, sexual violence, South Africa, Uganda, violence against women Tagged With: , , , , ,

QAR Weekly News

November 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Tweet * Second hate crime in a week. Modise Hamiliton Mosweu was stabbed to death in Westonaria, South Africa A gay West Rand man has been brutally murdered, and possibly raped, in Westonaria in an apparent hate crime. The body of 34-year-old Modise Hamilton Mosweu was found in a pool of blood in a neighbour’s [...]

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, Nigeria, QAR, Queer Politics, QueerCide, Uganda Tagged With: , ,
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