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2015 Aug. 13: Cheated out of a goodbye

Posted on August 14, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Bathini Dambuza Losing a mother has never been an easy thing for someone to go through. You feel the pain and the heartache almost everyday; especially when things aren’t going the way you want them to. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Bathini Dambuza, Community, Creating awareness, Feelings, Lost, Mourning, Power of the Voice, South Africa, Vain, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged Action, Archived photo, Articles, Bathini Dambuza, community, Condolences, Constitution Hill, Death that claim my mother, Education, Experience, Expression, Family, FEW, Forum for the Empowerment of Women, Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), Friendships, Furious, God, HIV, HIV positive, Home, Human, Human beings, human rights, Human Rights workshop, Life experience, Life story, Love, Loving daughter, Question, Reason, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality, Time, Tradition, Visual history, Voices, Women, Words, Writing is a Right | 8 Comments

2015 Aug. 11: Awed by Syracuse

Posted on August 13, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Day 6: @ Light Work AIR by Muholi Good morning Lerato Dumse I woke up at 4h11. I’m working already. It is another day now. Jet lag is taking its own toll on me. Am thinking about what we’ve done since … Continue reading →

Posted in Archived memories, Creating awareness, Creative space, Expression, Freestyle writing, Life, Life Stories, Muholi travel diaries, Power of the Voice, Public space, Readings, South Africa, Success, Support, Supportive friends and families, Travel-logue, Treasure, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Work matters, Writing is a Right, Zanele Muholi for Light Work AIR 2015 | Tagged Distance, Inkanyiso media, Lerato Dumse, Park, Production, Remembered, Sign post, Syracuse, Zanele Muholi | Leave a comment

2015 Aug. 9: Tangled pubic hair

Posted on August 11, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Your piece of soft pubic hair is tangled with mine. I saw it as I showered. The blocking white shower surface makes it transparent that we exist here as one. I see my black curly stubborn-ness, so annoying We just … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, From South Africa to Mayotte Island, Love, Lovers, Mayotte Island, Power of the Voice, Relationship, Since 2012, Voice, We Are You, We Care, Writing is a Right, ZaVa, ZuFre | Tagged Action, activism, Activists, Articles, beauty, Being safe, Black body, Black Lesbian, Celebrating love., Collaborations, Connectedness, Education, Experience, Expression, Feelings, Homosexuality, Human beings, Life, Love is beautiful, No shame on being queer, On vacation, Photos by Valerie Thomas, Texts and visuals, The beach, Visual history, Water, We love photography, Words, Zanele Muholi | Leave a comment

2014 Aug. 1: Chubby Vogue Divas: A Critique of the Female Body

Posted on August 5, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

A photographic body of work by Charmain Carrol. Chubby Vogue Divas exhibition is by a Market Photo Workshop graduate Charmain Carrol, (Photographer) which is a series of 21 photos of big black women who get to feel good … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Power of the Voice, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged 21 photos, 6th of August 2015, Act, Action, Alexandra, Appreciate, Article, Charmain Carrol, Chubby Vogue Divas, Con Hill, Constitution Hill, Eskhawini in KwaZulu-Natal, exhibition, Experience, Expression, Fashion, Feeling, Friendships, Fuller figures, gender, Hermmersdale, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Johannesburg, Kwamashu, Learn, Love, Models, Picture Power, Platform, Port Shepstone, Portrayal of Women in Magazines, Press Release, Relationships, Respect, Secunda, Shapes and sizes, South Africa, Soweton Gauteng and Durban, struggle, The journey, Umlazi, Visual history, Visual project, Voices, Weight, Women, Words, Yaya Mavundla | 1 Comment

2015 July 31: Lihle Sokhela’s killer shows no remorse

Posted on August 1, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Text and photos by Lerato Dumse It was a bittersweet moment when Thabo Molefe (47) was sentenced to a concurrent 22 years for murder and 12 years for raping Lihle Sokhela (28). Sokhela was a black lesbian from Daveyton. There … 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 2014 lesbian murder, 22 year sentence, Articles, Author, beauty, Black lesbian victim of hate crime, Black lesbians, Brutally murdered, Commission for Gender Equality, Consensual, Conviction, Court appearance, Daveyton, Education, Expression, Eye witness, Family, Feelings, Friendships, Guilty verdict, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Idea, Inkanyiso media, Judge, Judgement, Killing, Legal, Lerato Dumse, Lihle Sokhela, Lihle Sokhela’s killer shows no remorse, modus operandi, Murder, Murder case, Photography, post-mortem results, Pretoria, Rape, Relationships, Reporting from court, Respect, Responsibility, Sentence, Sex, Sexuality, Testimonies, Trial, Violated, Visual activism, Voices, We love photography, Weeklong trial, Women’s Ecumenical Conference, Words, Writing is a Right | 7 Comments

2015 July 7: A meeting of minds

Posted on July 20, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Report from Yithi Laba conference by Kopano Sibeko Photos by Lindeka Qampi & Zanele Muholi They say two heads are better than one; I say they are only better if they are functional. Yithi Laba conference proved to be the … Continue reading →

Posted in Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, We are capable, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged 2015 Yithi Laba conference, 21 Years of democracy, A meeting of minds, Academic, Activists, Ambitious, Another approach is possible, Art Activism, artists, Black Lesbian professionals, Black Lesbian Youth, Collaborations, Constitution Hill, Education, Experience, Expression, Faces and Phases (2006 - 2014), Feelings, FreeGender, Friendships, Functional, Gathering, Homosexuality, Human beings, Initiative, Inkanyiso media, Intergenerational, Johannesburg, Kopano Sibeko, Laughter, Movement, Oppression, Participants..., Photography, Presentations, Relationships, Respect, Sexualities, Sexuality, Sharing knowledge, South Africa, Successful conference., Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, We love photographs, Well organized event, Women's Jail, Words, Young women, Zanele Muholi | 1 Comment

2015 June 30: South African Visual Activists Documenting Oslo

Posted on July 16, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

“We are not just about our sex, or just about what is between our legs, or what is on our chests, we live and eat; and there are so many socio economic factors that affect us.” – Fikile Vilakazi, South African … 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 activism, Art Activism, Attraction, “The United Nations, Background, Canadian ambassador, Celebration, Christie van Zyl, Collen Mfazwe, community, Excitement, Experiences, Fabian Stang, Fikile Vilakazi, gender, Gender Identity and LGBT People- Free and Equal?”, Gibson Kente, Highlights, human rights, Identity politics, Inkanyiso media, Inspired, Interview, Kunstplass 10, Labour party, Lerato Dumse, LGBT community, Lindeka Qampi, Litteraturhuset, Marginalization, Minority groups, Norway;, Oslo files, Oslo LGBT Pride, Photographs, Pride, Profile, Same sex, Sámpi community, Sexual orientation, Sexuality, Skeiv Verden (Queer World), Socio-economic justice, sports commentator, townships, VACEP 2015, Vibeke Hermanrud and Henriette Stensdal, Vigor, Visual activism, Zanele Muholi | 5 Comments

2015 July 7: A month later after Yithi Laba conference

Posted on July 15, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Photo Album Where: Women’s Jail, Braamfontein, Johannesburg Photos by Lindeka Qampi & Zanele Muholi Videographers: Mzonke Madotyeni & Phumlani Mdlalose Camera used: Canon 6d … 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 2015 Yithi Laba conference, Act, Action, Another approach is possible, Art Activism, Art advocacy, Captioned, Collaborations, community, Conversations, Education, Faces and Phases participants, Featuring, Feelings, Friendships, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Intergenerational Dialogue, Life, Living..., Love, Loving, Parents of black lesbians, Photographs, Presentations, Social media, Sponsored by Zanele Muholi, The photography that bind us, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, We love photography, Words, Writing is a Right | 4 Comments

2015 July 3: Where I died

Posted on July 14, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Bottles were always popped We club hoped all night I was always high High on weed Drunk in love Your love my weakness The night was always young and we were I spent my youth falling in love with … Continue reading →

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2015 June 30: “How it felt to be touched and caressed by the one you love”

Posted on July 7, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Shirley Ndaba (Hendricks) There I was at the tender age of 10 years, nothing seemed abnormal about me. I loved playing with dolls, I would play children’s games with girlfriends and boyfriends. I never thought I was any different … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Discipline, Discomfort, Expression, Photo Expressions, Power of the Voice, South Africa, We Are You, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged Acceptance, Advise, Articles, beauty, Being, Being loved, Black Lesbian, butches/studs/tomboys, Care, Caressed, Complications, Consentration, Depression, Description, Discovery, Education, Experience, Faces and Phases participant, Family, Feelings, FEW, Freedom, Friendships, Hair, Homosexuality, Human beings, Journey, Kiss, LGBTI community, Life story, Lifestyle, Love, Neighbourhood, Patience, Photography, Proud lesbian, Reflection, Relationship, Self discovery, Sex, Sexuality, Shirley Ndaba (Hendricks), South African Young Woman, Time, Touch, Visual activism, Visual history, Words, Work, Zanele Muholi | 4 Comments

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Category Archives: Writing is a Right

2015 Aug. 13: Cheated out of a goodbye

2015 Aug. 11: Awed by Syracuse

2015 Aug. 9: Tangled pubic hair

2014 Aug. 1: Chubby Vogue Divas: A Critique of the Female Body

2015 July 31: Lihle Sokhela’s killer shows no remorse

2015 June 30: South African Visual Activists Documenting Oslo

2015 July 3: Where I died

2015 June 30: “How it felt to be touched and caressed by the one you love”

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