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	<title>Black Looks &#187; South Africa</title>
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		<title>A history to remember: &#8220;Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?&#8221; Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins with a brief account of his own imprisonment at the age of 16 where he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words not necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all those who were murdered by bombs in Nigeria today. For my family scattered across the world [US, Ireland, UK, Ghana, Nigeria, Dubai, Pacific Ocean] &#8211; two here, one there, 10 over there, dozens over over there, three far away and most of all my grandson &#8211; I miss you all. Simphiwe Dana featuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of pavement dwellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[No House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Land]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shackdwellers south africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symphony Way]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In December 2007 a group of backorders occupied a section of empty houses but were evicted after just two months.   They then decided to stay in the area and built their shacks along the pavement of Symphony Way where they managed to stay for a further 20 months.  Eventually they were evicted for a second time and forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem for Zoliswa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/poem-for-zoliswas-final-sentencing-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zoliswa Nkonyana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On December 19th, those guilty of Zoliswa&#8217;s murder will be sentenced. This is a poem for Zoliswa by Elsbeth Engelbrecht © Dear Zoliswa; The undecided meaning of your life were impenetrable on the day your mother turned into a melting grief After so many years Her heart must have been surprised by an uninvited confirmation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond COP17 &#8211; language and grassroots realities</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/beyond-cop17-language-and-grassroots-realities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transformational Organising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A clip from a roundtable discussion on the South African media&#8217;s reporting on Climate Change which has failed to amplify the voices of those most affected.]]></description>
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		<title>Bleeding in progress &#8211; making public the violence of rape</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/bleeding-in-progress-bringing-the-private-violence-of-rape-into-public-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[16 Days Against Violence Against Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hetreosexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian Rape]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Visual activist, Zanele Muholi discusses her most recent photographic installation &#8220;Isilumo Siyaluma&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Batsumi : Masterpiece AfroJazz</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/batsumi-masterpiece-afrojazz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1970s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afrobeat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rise up music &#8211; forget the coffee just think Batsumi! &#8220;rare indigenous afro-jazz sounds from South Africa with the release of Sowetan group Batsumi&#8217;s self-titled debut from 1974. The reissue has been lovingly re-mastered from the original tapes and features material compiled on the recent Next Stop Soweto series from Strut. The album arrived amidst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isilumo Siyaluma: An artist responds to rape</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/we-bleed-an-artist-responds-to-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/we-bleed-an-artist-responds-to-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isilumo siyaluma (2006-2011) by Zanele Muholi &#160; It started as a thumb print Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain&#8221;. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”   At one level, my project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women bleed:  An artist responds to rape</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/women-bleed-an-artist-responds-to-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/women-bleed-an-artist-responds-to-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Isilumo siyaluma (2006-2011) by Zanele Muholi Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain&#8221;. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.” At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 convicted for the murder of Zoliswa Nkonyana in Khayelitsha</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/4-convicted-for-the-murder-of-zoliswa-nkonyana-in-khayelitsha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/4-convicted-for-the-murder-of-zoliswa-nkonyana-in-khayelitsha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally after five years of postponements 4 men were convicted of the murder of Zoliswa Nkonyana. 3 others were acquitted of the original 9 arrested. This is the first case in South Africa to recognise sexual orientation and lesbians as a motive for murder and violent crimes. Zoliswa, 19, was murdered on the 4th February [...]]]></description>
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