Category Archives: ReClaim Your Activism

2013 June 4: emotional confusion of a break-up

Posted on June 7, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

 I walk with my head down because I don’t want anyone’s eyes to meet my sadness Your name still echoes in my thoughts You are still my first sight before I introduce my eyes to a new day I wish … Continue reading →

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2013 June 2: Inkanyiso presents at LGBT & Human Rights: New Challenges, Next Steps conference

Posted on June 5, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

by Lesego Tlhwale On the 1 June 2013 while the Inkanyiso crew went to Alexandra to celebrate one of our members (Zandile Makhubu) 21st birthday party, I had to board a 10 hour long flight to Munich, then a four … Continue reading →

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2013 May 19: There’s beauty in aging

Posted on June 3, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

Photographic – PORTFOLIO Focus: People by Collen Mfazwe In May 2013, I started working on this special project which is about old persons who are residents at the Daveyton Old Age Home, Johannesburg. They are men and women whose identities/ gender … Continue reading →

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2013 May 20 : Intellectual lesbians

Posted on May 26, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

by Jamilla Madingwane It was not until I had to write this article that intellect became a very complex theme for me. I tried to break it down cognitively and artistically and I realised that intellect is a multi-dimensional, philosophical … Continue reading →

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2013 May 11: My last hour

Posted on May 25, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

Photo album @ Limpopo Pride (after march at the cricket club).  Polokwane. by Zanele Muholi (2013.05.11)  

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2013 May 6: Archiving Noxolo Nogwaza’s funeral

Posted on May 6, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

… this documentary was produced in 2011 when we buried Noxolo Nogwaza in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg. She was a 24 year old mother of two children who were then orphaned by hate crime related incident. It is in different languages: … Continue reading →

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2013 April 28: Bleak freedom for black lesbians in South Africa

Posted on April 28, 2013 by inkanyiso2009

by Lesego Tlhwale While many South Africans gathered at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa to commemorate nineteen years of freedom, the LGBTI community in Ekurhuleni gathered in Daveyton to bury Patricia ‘Pat’ Mashigo whose lifeless body was found … Continue reading →

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