insinuates that Africans learnt homosexuality from Europeans (and/or Arabs), I do not go to my happy place where only thoughts of first love and first kisses rule. Rather I think about waking up in the dead of the night to a ghostly white female figure hovering over my bed. The white woman that all African lesbians, bisexual women and women
Jon Qwelane guilty of hate speech
May 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jon Qwelane who published the article “Call me names but gay is NOT OK” in the South African Sunday Sun in July 2008 has been convicted of hate speech by the Johannesburg Equality Court. The article by Jon Qwelane – which includes a despicable cartoon equating same sex relationships with bestiality, calls for a rewriting [...]
Love, Against Homophobia
April 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ugandan writer and poet, Musa Okwonga adds music and video to his poem “My Love Against Homophobia” “My Love (for Eudy Simelane)” To some people My love is somewhat alien; When he comes up, they start subject-changing, and In some states he’s seen as some contagion – In those zones, he stays subterranean; Some love [...]
Women Take Ownership Of Their Sexuality And The Streets
September 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The following piece was written by Cheryl Roberts on the Sparkling Women Facebook page – This is the kind of piece that should be written and to which I was referring to my post from yesterday “Telling other people’s stories” . Fighting Homophobia, Women Take Ownership Of Their Sexuality And The Streets Given our non-racial democratic [...]
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