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2015 April 13: Ode to the Young Black Lesbian

Posted on April 15, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Dear… Young black lesbian With time your faces will change With time your swag will re-arrange With time your phases will cut frames And in a stint you may look back and even consider yourself lame In time your life … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, South Africa, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged A community of black lesbians in South Africa, Aknowledgement, Another approach is possible, Archives, beauty, Black lesbians, Challenges, Changes, Christie van Zyl, Collaborations, Concept, Education, Experience, Expression, Faces, Feelings, For ‘Faces and Phases 2006 - 2014’, Friendships, Future generations, Homosexuality, Human beings, Johannesburg, Legacy, Life, Living..., Love, Loving, Ode to the Young Black Lesbian, Of Existence and Resistance, Participants..., Photography, Photography is US, Poetry, Publication, Relationships, same-sex loving woman, South Africa, Special poem, THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, torch bearer, Visibility, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, When Faces meet, Words, Writing is a Right, Zanele Muholi | 3 Comments

2015 March 26: Four generations of black lesbians at the Faces and Phases book launch

Posted on April 15, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Photo Album Photos by Oyi Ndzuzo, SlyPod, Lindeka Qampi, Mannya and Terra Dick. Location: African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. The panelist of Four generations of … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, South Africa, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged Act, Action, activism, Activists, Another approach is possible, Art, Articles, artists, Arts, Audience, beauty, Black lesbians, Cape Town, Challenges, Change, Christie van Zyl, Collaborations, community, Conversation, Education, Experience, Expression, Faces and Phases (2006-14) book launch, Family, Fashion, Feelings, FreeGender, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Jane Bennett, Khayamandi, Khayelitsha, Lerato Dumse, Life, Lindeka Qampi, Malibongwe Swane, Mbekweni, My gratitude, Nyanga, Participants..., Participation, Photographs are US, Photography, Relationships, Respect, Reunited, Sexuality, Siba Nkumbi, South Africa, Stellenbosch, Students, Velisa Jara, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, We love photography, Words, Writing is a Right, Zanele Muholi | 1 Comment

2015 April 2: My first time visiting Joburg

Posted on April 13, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Anele Lozo Sibamba I took a nerve-wracking trip on March 30, 2015 from where I stay in Mpumalanga (Ermelo), destined to Johannesburg (Parktown). The arrangement was made to allow me to collect my copy of the Faces and Phases … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Face, Faces & Phases portraits, Faces and Phases (2006 - 2014), Family and Friends, Fantasy, Imagined, Learning, Power of the Voice, South Africa, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Words, Writing is a Right, Writing matters | Tagged Anele Lozo Sibamba, Black Lesbian Youth, Cape Town, Excitement, Faces and Phases participant, Family, Follow up photos, From Ermelo, Joburg, Life, Lives, Mpumalanga to Johannesburg, Parktown, Reconnected, Relationships, Reunited, Road trip, Travel diary, Visit, When Faces meet | 1 Comment

2015 April 13: Javas approaches new Phase – Marriage

Posted on April 13, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

*** The life story was first published in Faces and Phases (2006-14) book*** People call me Javas. I was born in Soweto but now live in Thokoza. I was born in 1974 on 16 December. I have two brothers and … Continue reading →

Posted in Dress code, Dress sense, South Africa, Soweto, Thoughts, Time, together, Together we can, Translation, Treasure, Trust, Understanding | Tagged beauty, Benefits, Black Lesbian professional, Black Lesbian Wedding;, Born in 1974, Butch and Femme, Butch lesbian, Civil Union Act (2006), community, Educated, Education, Engaged, Faces and Phases participant, Family, Fiance', Former soccer player, Future, Happy, human resources administrator, Joyce 'Javas' Ndlovu, Learning from each other, Love, Marikana, Mine, Miners, Mining company, Prejudice, Progress, queerdom, Relationship, Respect, Respected person, Sexual orientation, South African Constitution, Thokoza, Wedding bells for Javas and Mashadi | 6 Comments

2015 March 4: Four nights before International Women’s Day

Posted on April 13, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

What: ZaVa series in progress. Where: Belleville, Paris Previous link 2014 Nov. 11: The Artivist and the Doctor

Posted in Lesbian couple, Lesbian kiss, Lessons learnt, Life, Life lived, Life partner, Photography, Photography as a therapy, queerness, question of history., Questioning, Sexual Liberation, Support, Support is the system, Visual activism, Visual activism is a language, Visual Activist, Visual democracy, Visual diaries, Visual history is a Right not a luxury, Visual narratives, Visual Power, Visual power by ordinary people, Voice | Tagged 'As we are', beauty, Bonding, Complexities, Conflicts, Family, From Johannesburg to Paris, Intimacy, Living and Learning from each other, Looking, Love, Photo by Valerie Thomas/ Zanele Muholi, Sex, Skin, The Artivist and the Doctor, Together-ness, We love photography | Leave a comment

2015 April 12: Dear fellow Black person

Posted on April 13, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Siba Nkumbi Need I remind you that there is no rule for pronunciation? Why do you feel the need to auto-correct me in the middle of a sentence, because that is not how you pronounce a certain word? Let … Continue reading →

Posted in "I tried to commit suicide...", Collaborations, Collectivism, Imagined, Knowledge, Learning, Perception, Poetry, Politics of existence, Politics of geography, Politics of representation, Teaching, Textualizing Our Own Lives, We Are You, We Care, We love each other, We Still Can with/out Resources, Women who love women, Women's power, Women; Voices; Writings; Education; Traditions; Struggles; Cultures, Words, Writing is a Right, Writing matters, Young black lesbian traditional healer, young black queer and gifted, Young female writer, Young talent, Youth, Youth voices | Tagged Ability, Angry, Black person, Confidence, Conflicting, Confrontation, Contribution, Cradock, Criticism, Education, Experience, Facing, FILM, Filmmaker, Forgive, Generation, Humans, Ideas, Ignorance, Laughing stock, Luxury, Message, Momma, Note, Offend, Poverty, Pronunciation, Public speaking, Reconcile, self-esteem, Speak, Speaker, Strange, Struggling with words, Thank you, twang, Wisdom, Writer, Xhosa is a South African language | 3 Comments

2015 March 25: Connections rekindled at the Cape Town reunion

Posted on April 11, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Lerato Dumse Eyes were cast in Cape Town (CPT) with the hype created by the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, and the #RhodesMustFall campaign at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Faces and Phases 2006-14 (F&P) commanded its own … Continue reading →

Posted in Details, Difference, Discussion, Gifted, Gifts, Give, Give credits where it is due, Political space, Politics of existence, Politics of representation, South Africa, South African art, South African Artists, Stories, Strength, Women who have sex with Women, Youth voices | Tagged activism, Activists, Activists Act, Adoring, advocacy, Another approach is possible, Archived memories, Black Lesbian lives in South Africa, Cape Town University at the height of Protest (Rhodes Must Fall), Captions, Creating awareness, Documenting, Expression, Faces and Phases book launch, Faces and Phases page numbers captioned as per participant, Faces and Phases participants, Featuring Black Lesbians from Mbekweni, Free Gender, Khayamandi, Khayelitsha, OurPride, Photo book, Photographs, Portraits, Power of the Arts, Power of the Voice, Powerful, Presentations, Pressure, Reality, Realization, Reason, Recognition, Recognized, Recording, Records and histories, Respected person, Reviving the culture of reading and writing, Revolution, Scripted, Seeing difference, Self acceptance, Self employed, Self love, Self portraits, Self recognition, Sexual orientation, Sexual Politics education in South Africa, Sexuality in South Africa, Sharing information, Sharing knowledge, Silence, Silent voices, Social documentary photography, Social responsibility, society, Solution, South Africa, South African artists, South African languages, South African lesbians, South African struggle, South African townships, South African Youth, Spiritual activists, Teachings, Testimonies, textbooks, Texts, Textualizing Our Own Lives, Thankful, Time, Timing, together, Together we can, Togetherness, townships, Translation, Treasure, Understanding, Various townships of Cape Town, Visual history in South Africa, We are you, We Care, We love photography, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right and tagged African Gender Institute @ Cape Town university | 1 Comment

2015 March 25: Photos from Faces and Phases book launch @ AGI – UCT

Posted on March 29, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Where: African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town What: Launched Faces and Phases book launch When: 24th Mar. 2015 Photos by Lindeka Qampi/ Inkanyiso (2015) See the portraits of each participants in the book as per captions below Part I … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Activists, Activists Act, Adoring, Advocacy, Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Photographs, Power of the Arts, Power of the Voice, Powerful, Presentations, Pressure, Reality, Realization, Reason, Recognition, recognized, Recording, Records and histories, Respected person, Reviving the culture of reading and writing, revolution, Scripted, Seeing difference, Self acceptance, Self employed, Self love, Self portraits, Self recognition, Sexual orientation, Sexual Politics education in South Africa, Sexuality in South Africa, Sharing information, Sharing knowledge, Silence, Silent voices, Social documentary photography, Social responsibility, Society, Solution, South Africa, South African Artists, South African lesbians, South African struggle, South African townships, South African Youth, Spiritual activists, Teachings, Testimonies, textbooks, Texts, Textualizing Our Own Lives, Thankful, Time, Timing, together, Together we can, Togetherness, Townships, Translation, Treasure, Understanding, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged African Gender Institute @ Cape Town university, Black Lesbian lives in South Africa, Cape Town University at the height of Protest (Rhodes Must Fall), Captions, Documenting, Faces and Phases book launch, Faces and Phases page numbers captioned as per participant, Faces and Phases participants, Featuring Black Lesbians from Mbekweni, Khayamandi, Khayelitsha, OurPride, Photo book, Portraits, South African languages, Various townships of Cape Town, Visual history in South Africa, We love photography | 6 Comments

2015 March 19: The censored and oppressed recognized

Posted on March 21, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Lerato Dumse While many choose to play it safe in life, with comfortable 9-5pm jobs, living in safe neighborhoods, engaging in safe conversations, and staying out of their corrupt government and their associate’s way. There are brave women and … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, South Africa, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged 15th Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards 2015, 3 African winners, Acceptance, Act, Action, activism, Activists, Africa, Amran Abdundi, Angolan, Another approach is possible, Art, Articles, artists, Arts, Atlatszo.hu, Audience, Barbican Centre, beauty, Black lesbians, Campaigning award, Category, Charlie Hebdo, Collaborations, community, Competition, Conflict, Debate, Detained, Education, equality, Experience, Expression, Family, Feelings, Feminism, Filming, Friendships, Frontier Indigenous Network (FIN), Government, Human beings, human rights, Imprisoned, Inkanyiso media, Journalism, Judges, Kenya, Killed, Lerato Dumse, Life, London, Love, Loving, Morocco, Mouad ‘El Haqed’ Belghouat, News, Nominations, Paris, Photography, Politics, Poverty, Relationships, Religion, Respect, Safa Al Ahmad, Saudi Arabia, Sexuality, Shappi Khorsandi, South Africa, speech, Support, Tamas Bodoky, Terrorism, Tortured, Tragedy, Trophies, Violence, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Winners of the 2015 Freedom of Expression Awards, Women, Zanele Muholi | Leave a comment

2015 March 20: Faces and Phases book launch at UCT African Gender Institute

Posted on March 20, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

The Stevenson Exhibition Gallery and the African Gender Institute cordially invite you to the launch of ‘Faces & Phases‘ by Zanele Muholi. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist who affirms and celebrates the multiplicity of human … Continue reading →

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2015 April 13: Ode to the Young Black Lesbian

2015 March 26: Four generations of black lesbians at the Faces and Phases book launch

2015 April 2: My first time visiting Joburg

2015 April 13: Javas approaches new Phase – Marriage

2015 March 4: Four nights before International Women’s Day

2015 April 12: Dear fellow Black person

2015 March 19: The censored and oppressed recognized

2015 March 20: Faces and Phases book launch at UCT African Gender Institute

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