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	<title>Black Looks &#187; South Africa</title>
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		<title>South African HIV Prevention Gel may put Black lives at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/south-african-hiv-prevention-gel-may-put-black-lives-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/south-african-hiv-prevention-gel-may-put-black-lives-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andile Mngxitama]]></category>
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How safe is the &#8220;miracle HIV Prevention Gel&#8221; announced at the recent World AIDS conference in Vienna?   The vaginal gel produced in South Africa is supposed to reduce a woman&#8217;s chances of HIV contraction by as much as 39% and reduce chances of Herpes infection by 51%.  Quite staggering claims.  However [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference on African Same-Sex Sexualities &amp; Gender Diversity</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/conference-on-african-same-sex-sexualities-gender-diversity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/conference-on-african-same-sex-sexualities-gender-diversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
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CALL FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS FOR THE CONFERENCE:AFRICAN SAME-SEX SEXUALITIES AND GENDER DIVERSITY: PRACTICES, IDENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES.   Pretoria, South Africa, February 13-16, 2011
Conference objectives:
 
• To promote understanding and further study of male and female same-sex sexual practices, identities and communities, including expressions of gender diversity, in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• To promote understanding of social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual violence at the Limpopo River</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/sexual-violence-at-the-limpopo-river/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/sexual-violence-at-the-limpopo-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xenophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe refugees]]></category>

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Armed gangs operating on the South African side of the Zimbabwe/SA borders are terrorizing women young girls and men. If there are men crossing they are forced to rape other members of the group.  After raping the women are stripped and tied up on the side of the road.  So far this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We need to shine the light in the dark corners of our cultures</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/we-need-to-shine-the-light-in-the-dark-corners-of-our-cultures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/we-need-to-shine-the-light-in-the-dark-corners-of-our-cultures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
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I always find that when it comes to romanticising African traditions, it is generally men who are at the forefront of calls to return to the &#8220;old ways&#8221; whilst women and young girls are the ones who suffer the brutality of some practices such as forced marriage, child marriage and female circumcision.  South African [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chosen Few @ Gay Games 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/chosen-few-gay-games-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chosen Few]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa Womens Soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soweto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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Personalize your own slideshow


Photographs by Zanele Muholi ©
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		<title>Unforgotten Faces &#8211; Acknowledging Black Womyn of South Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/unforgotten-faces-acknowledging-black-womyn-of-south-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/08/unforgotten-faces-acknowledging-black-womyn-of-south-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zanele Muholi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Eisenman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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Busisiwe Sigasa
For Artscape Women’s Festival 2010, Zanele Muholi and Ellen Eisenman have produced a collection of photographs that celebrate women’s lives. They recognize and honor the living as well as those who have left the planet. And they question, why does society allow some to be taken away so early and with such violence? These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faces &amp; Phases, Proudly African &amp; Transgender: Exhibitions in Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/faces-phases-proudly-african-transgender-exhibitions-in-amsterdam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/faces-phases-proudly-african-transgender-exhibitions-in-amsterdam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faces and Phases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Le Roux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proudly African & Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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Two of my favorite people, Zanele Muholi [Faces and Phases]  and Gabrielle Le Roux [Proudly African and Transgender] have a joint exhibition over the next 3 months in Amsterdam &#8211; July 29 &#8211; October 20. 

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		<title>Here comes the judge</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/here-comes-the-judge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/here-comes-the-judge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courting Justice]]></category>
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&#8220;Dont even try to mess with me- I may look like I am about to fall asleep but its just my look!&#8221;

&#8220;Courting Justice &#8221; is a film about the experiences of female [Black] judges in South Africa&#8217;s highest courts
Courting Justice” features seven South African women judges, all of whom were New Democracy appointments. They serve on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/happy-birthday-nelson-mandela/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/happy-birthday-nelson-mandela/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesotho]]></category>
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NB: The following is only part of what Nelson Mandela said in his defense in 1964, when he was being tried for treason in South-Africa, and going to be, as everyone had thought, sentenced to death. It is only the last bit of that speech. Read all of it at this site. The rest is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christine Ehlers, Transphobia on trial</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/christine-ehlers-transphobia-on-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/christine-ehlers-transphobia-on-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bohler Uddeholm Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Ehlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transphobia]]></category>

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Christine Ehlers, who was fired as a sales assistant after her employers, Multinational steel retailer, Bohler Uddeholm Africa, found out she was going through a series of sex change procedures, is now taking them to the South African Labour Court.  Constitutionally Speaking has an excellent commentary on the case which highlights the attempt to [...]]]></description>
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