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What has underwear got to do with her job performance-a woman ‘raped’.

April 29, 2013 · by Glenda Muzenda · in South Africa

Tweet What began as a protest to remove the minister of education due to lack of performance and delivery has turned vile and completely out of order. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has been under fire for several months with…

South Africa: Two years have past yet still no justice for Noxolo Nogwaza

April 27, 2013 · by Sokari · in Africa , Africa LGBTI, Assault on Dissent, QAR, Queer Politics, sexual violence, South Africa

The 24 year old lesbian’s body was found in a ditch in Tsakane, East of Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni. Her face crushed with bricks, it was also alleged that her pants were pulled down and she was raped in what is described as a hate crime.

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

April 23, 2013 · by Sokari · in Africa LGBTI, Apartheid, Gender Violence, News Roundup, Queer Politics, QueerCide, sexual violence, Sexuality, South Africa

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.

A Mother’s Story

April 16, 2013 · by Mia Nikasimo · in Africa LGBTI, African Feminism, Queer Politics, Transgender

Tweet Ricki Kgositau interviews Diana, a mother on coming to terms with her transgender son A Mother’s Story* – “I started opening up to him and my child becoming relaxed no longer afraid of me, just like the old times….

Another Soul Lost

April 1, 2013 · by Sokari · in Africa - Creative Arts, Africa LGBTI, Crea(c)tive Senses, Photography, Queer Politics, South Africa

Tweet   I received your news, but I did not cry! Am coming But not today When we see you, I won’t cry I’ll remember you like your mothers footsteps Home is far Heaven is closer Rejoice for my sake,…

Gloom Glamour Graves

March 26, 2013 · by Glenda Muzenda · in Africa LGBTI, African Feminism, Crea(c)tive Senses, Queer Politics, QueerCide, South Africa

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…

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Sokari Ekine - @blacklooks - founder and editor of Black Looks, is a writer, educationalist and digital activist. She is editor of SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa [2010] co-editor of African Awakenings [Firoze Manji, 2011] and the forthcoming Queer African Reader [Hakima Abbas. 2012]. Sokari is a weekly contributor to Pambazuka News and her writings have appeared in progressive media and academic journals in Africa, Europe and the US. Sokari also blogs at Tumblr

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