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2015 Aug. 16: Civics, Unions and Churches in a stand-off on LGBTI rights

Posted on August 17, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Gugu “Donsy Kunene” Madonsela The 11th Southern Africa Civil Society Forum almost ended in a stand-off on Friday, 14 August. The stalemate occured when organising partners differed on the inclusion of a recommendation on, ‘sexual orientation’ in the final communique. … Continue reading →

Posted in Accountability, Africa, Another Approach Is Possible, Apex Alliance Partner, Archived memories, Article, by Gugu “Donsy Kunene” Madonsela, Churches, Civics, Creating awareness, Debate, Delegates, Derogative, Disagreement, Discrimination, Expression, Forum, Heads of State, Human rights, Leaders, LGBTI community, LGBTI issues, Members, Power of the Voice, Resolution, SADC, Sexual orientation, South Africa, Southern Africa, Southern African Development Community, Support, Unions, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged Act, Action, activism, Activists, Articles, Black lesbians, Collaborations, Communique, Consensus, Disagreement, Divorce, Education, Exclusion, Experience, Family, Feelings, Friendships, Gender issues, General Secretary Boichoko Dithlake, Homosexuality, Human beings, Isabella Matambanadzo, Labour, Life, Negotiation, Opportunity, Persecution, Recognition, Respected, SADC-CNGO, SATUCC, Stigma, Trade unions, Words, Workers as family members | 1 Comment

2015 Aug. 8: Celebrated my late sister’s life

Posted on August 17, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Boitumelo ‘Tumi’ Nkopane At 16:45pm on the 4th of June 2015 I met with Ayanda “Kiss” Masina at Tsakane taxi rank. We were meeting as participants of Faces and Phases/Yithi Laba Intergenerational Conference, held at Constitution Hill (Con Hill) from the 5 … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, History, 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, Activists, Articles, artists, Black lesbians, Boitumelo 'Tumi' Nkopane, Celebrated my late sister’s life, Challenges and experiences, Collaborations, community, Con Hill, Education, Experience, Expression, Faces and Phases participants, Family, Fashion, Feelings, Friendships, Gauteng, Guest house, Homosexuality, human rights, Introductions, Johannesburg, Meals, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality, Sharing information, Sister, Special moments, Various townships, Visual activism, Voices, We love photography | 2 Comments

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. 10: Fulfilling a wish

Posted on August 11, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Text by Lerato Dumse Photos by Muholi Zanele I think black South Africans (maybe even other races) might agree with me that watching African American church services on TV or in movies makes one wish to attend. Their pastor’s sermons … Continue reading →

Posted in Bethany Baptist Church, by Lerato Dumse, Carrie Mae Weems, Church, Experience, Fulfilling a wish, God, New York, Syracuse | Tagged 3 generations of women in the picture, Act, Action, activism, Another approach is possible, Art, Art Activism, Articles, Artist-in-Residency, artists, beauty, Being acknowledged, Being involved, Birthdays and Anniversaries, Black lesbians, Celebration, Church announcements, Collaborations, community, East and South side, Education, Experience, Expression, Family, Feelings, Flea market, Friendships, From Johannesburg to Syracuse, God, History, Homosexuality, Human beings, Inkanyiso media, Light Work AIR, Listening, Living..., Love, Memories, Networking, New York upstate, Participation, Proactive, Program, Race, Racial divide, Respect, Sexuality, South Africa, Spirit, Syracuse, Thoughts, Time, Timing, USA, Visual activism, Voices, We love photography, Westside, Words, Writing is a Right | 1 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

2015 Aug. 10: A true definition of reality

Posted on August 10, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Siba Nkumbi Chubby Vogue Divas, using confidence as their weapon of mass destruction! 59 Years later after the march of women to the union buildings, chubby vogue divas were marching in style and class to eliminate discrimination against plus … Continue reading →

Posted in Archived memories, Confidence, Constitution Hill, Creating awareness, Expression, Lindeka Qampi, Power of the Voice, Questioning, South Africa, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged Act, Action, Amazing, Another approach is possible, Audience, Authored by Siba Nkumbi, Beautiful, Black Female Photographers in SA, Black Lesbian professionals, Captioned, Celebrating Women's month, Change, Charmain Carrol, Chubby, Chubby Vogue Divas, Complishment, Con Hill, Divas, exhibition, Experience, Family, Fashion, Fatty, Fit, friends, Friendships, Full figured women, Full-figured, Human beings, Inkanyiso media, Is'dudla, Johannesburg, Life, Love, Loving, Mainstream space, Mood, Perception, Personality, Photography, Pictures, Pride, Relationships, Shape, Space, Spectators, Statement, Support, Visual history, Visual project, Voices, We love photography, Words, Writing is a Right | 1 Comment

2015 Aug. 7: Double Despair

Posted on August 8, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Siba Nkumbi She never thought rape would still be an issue at her age, or in the year 2015. However, it seems like the human species has allowed it to be an everyday thing. Sadly, she found out the … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, South Africa, We Are You, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged 'Homosexuality is a sin', *Angie, Action, Assaulted, Author, Bad, Beatings, Black Lesbian, Blame, Blood stains, Break up, City to city, Clothes ripped off, community, Conversation, Crime not reported, Curative rape, Description, Disgrace, Double despair, Echo, Experience, Fought, friends, Gang rape, God, Hate crime, HIV to STI’s, Homo, Homosexuals, Human beings, humanity, Hurt, Inconsolable, Issue, Life, Night, No case number, Pregnancy, Rape, Rapists, Relationships, Respect, Sad, screams, Siba Nkumbi, South Africa, Survived, Victim, Visual history, Words, Writing our own, Writing Pain | 8 Comments

2015 July 7: From a broken heart

Posted on August 6, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Leptie Phume In life we fall in love more than twice and get hurt twice as much. We tell ourselves that we are better off alone, until that one person comes into the picture. Enters your life and changes your … Continue reading →

Posted in Chance, Dedicated, Emotions, Give, Language, Perception, unfocused | Tagged Act, Action, Another approach is possible, Art, Black Lesbian, Broken heart, Experience, Expression, Feelings, Friendships, Healing, Leptie Phume, Life, Love, Loving, Matter, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality, Time, Unfair, Voices, Women, Words, Writing is a Right, Writing liberates | 1 Comment

2015 Aug. 2: Untitled

Posted on August 6, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

I bring nothing but shame to the family Dear parents, those are your words Community, society and religion clouds your judgment towards me, why do they matter?. Look beyond shame and regret then you’ll see I am a loving, caring … Continue reading →

Posted in Being, Being conscientized, Being heard, being loved, being recognized, being respected., Black Lesbian, Caring, Change, Creating awareness, Exploration, Exposure, Expression, Facing abuse and violation, Facing You, Facts, Faith, Gifted, Give, Hurt, Injustices, Matters, Molestation, On my own, Punishment, Reading, Rejection, Resentment, Sexuality, Society, Solution, Terrified, Texts, Textualizing Our Own Lives, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Young talent | Tagged Acceptance, Act, Action, Another approach is possible, Articles, beauty, Black Lesbian, Blood and flesh, community, curse, Experience, Family, Feelings, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Life, Mpumalanga, Voices, Words, Writing is a Right | 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

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Tag Archives: Action

2015 Aug. 16: Civics, Unions and Churches in a stand-off on LGBTI rights

2015 Aug. 13: Cheated out of a goodbye

2015 Aug. 10: Fulfilling a wish

2015 Aug. 9: Tangled pubic hair

2015 Aug. 10: A true definition of reality

2015 Aug. 7: Double Despair

2015 July 7: From a broken heart

2015 Aug. 2: Untitled

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

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