Tag Archives: Expression

2015 Jan.20: Year 2014 was not all great

Posted on January 27, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Shaz “Sicka” Mthunzi Year 2014 A great year has passed, 2014 was a very productive year for me. When it (year) began I wrote down a few goals I wanted to achieve and to my surprise, I achieved them and … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec.23: Two days before Christmas in Mafikeng

Posted on January 15, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

On this day we hired a car and drove to Mafikeng, North West to introduce the Faces and Phases (2006 -2014) book to some of the participants featuring in it and their friends. We also met new possible participants. The … Continue reading →

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2015 Jan. 4: Exploring my femininity as a butch

Posted on January 15, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Siba Nkumbi I have always been bad with colors, today isn’t any different. I have decided to wear a dress, my partner’s dress (I do not own any dresses), it’s kind of an orange nice little number. It started … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec. 24: If things were going my way

Posted on January 6, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Lebo Leptie Phume & Zanele Muholi interviewed some special friends about their Christmas wishes. I grew up celebrating Christmas because that’s what everyone was doing and it’s not like I had a choice not to celebrate it. Even though I … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec.25: My pleasant Christmas

Posted on December 28, 2014 by inkanyiso2009

by Lebo Mashifane Previously I spent my Christmas days by going to church then back home to my grandmother’s house to eat Sunday food and dessert. When I became a university student in Cape Town I celebrated it with my … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec. 3: Beauty

Posted on December 18, 2014 by inkanyiso2009

She is beautiful But she doesn’t know it or maybe She chooses to hide her beauty In the exterior of her hard face … So, okay she has a hard face And the thing is she hides her softness In … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec. 13: Faces and Phases invokes memories

Posted on December 15, 2014 by inkanyiso2009

Book Review by Kopano Sibeko “I used to be lesbian, but now my final words are on a tombstone, because he showed me the power of a man. I could never love that, so I killed myself because I knew … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec. 7: Queen of Bhozi – eVosloorus

Posted on December 10, 2014 by inkanyiso2009

Everyone and everything has a nickname in this town and that’s how we roll Umagriza means granny Awuti means man We have many signs that we use to greet or call someone tjovitjo….awe…zithini lapho It might be a whistle, a … Continue reading →

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2014 Dec. 7: The joys and pains of organising Faces and Phases (2006-14) book launch

Posted on December 8, 2014 by inkanyiso2009

by Lerato Dumse  Apart from reading about it, and maybe seeing them in movies, the first time I attended a book launch in which I feature amongst many black lesbians and transgender individuals was on November 7, 2014 held at … Continue reading →

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2014 Nov. 26: Freedom…that’s all we need

Posted on December 6, 2014 by inkanyiso2009

We write letters into ANCient scrolls with ANCient mentalities that refuses to act now… We recite poems into dead societies with zombies in suits and big bellies.. Nobody hears us, we are in the basement of their thoughts… long forgotten … Continue reading →

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