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2015 Feb. 10: Another round for Norway

Posted on February 12, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Lerato Dumse Lillestrøm, Norway, is how successful South African photographer/artivist, Zanele Muholi, kicks off her traveling schedule for the year 2015. Apart from on-going shows such as her Midsumma exhibition in Australia, titled Visual Activism. Black and White portraits from her lifetime project, Faces … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Outstanding International Alumni Award, Akershus Art Centre, Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Art Solidarity, Articles, Beautiful faces, Beauty, Creating awareness, Democracy, Expression, From Johannesburg to Oslo, Inkanyiso media, Life Stories, Liva Mork, Mr Lesbian Daveyton, Nonkululeko “Sicka” Mthunzi, Norway, Power of the Voice, Queer texts, Queer visibility, Queer Youth, Rikke Komissar, South Africa, tackling racism through art, Talented, Tor Arne Samuelsen, Visibility, Vision, Visual activism is a language, Visual Activist, Visual Arts, Visual democracy, Visual diaries, Visual historical initiative, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged Act, Action, activism, Activists, Another approach is possible, artists, Black Lesbian, Black lesbians, Collaborations, Education, exhibition, Experience, Expression, Family, Fashion, Feelings, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Life, Living..., Love, Loving, Photography, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Words, Writing is a Right, Zanele Muholi | 6 Comments

2015 Feb. 4: Kiss is a priority when you marry

Posted on February 7, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

The first wedding we documented together. With different members of Inkanyiso crew. … It was that of Pinky and Qondi Zulu (2012 Dec. 22) Location: Seaview, Durban. Related links 2013 June 15: The Durban Lesbian Wedding of the Year … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Durban, Expression, Lesbian kiss, Pinky & Qondi Zulu, Power of the Voice, South Africa, Strength, Visual power by ordinary people, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged Act, Action, beauty, Black Lesbian Wedding;, Civil Union Act (2006), Experience, Expression, Family, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, Inkanyiso media, Life, Love, Photography, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality | Leave a comment

2015 Jan. 18: “The millennium” lesbian life wasn’t “simple”

Posted on January 27, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

FACES AND PHASES (2006-14) Review by Nthabiseng Stoffel The title for me brought great expectation and curiosity. I thought the faces will have more stories/phases of what they had to go through as black lesbian women. Paging through the book … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged "soft-butches" stone/ hard core butches, Abongile Matyila; Queer poetics; East London; South Africa; Youth Voices; Homosexuality; Love; Education; Expression, Being, bisexual women, Black lesbian lives, Black lesbians, Busi Sigasa, Butch lesbian mom, Corrective rape, Crit, Criticism, Education, Experience, Expertise, Expression, Faces and Phases book review, Family, fem, Friendships, gays( cross dressers and all), Hope, LGBTI community in SA, Life, Life stories, Living a Queer Legacy, Nthabiseng Stoffel, Participants..., Portrait, Power, Relationships, Speaking out and against, the millennium” lesbian life, transgender individuals', Visual project, Voices, Words, Writings, Zanele Muholi | 2 Comments

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 →

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 Activists, Akhona Hailele, Ancestors, Articles, artists, Audience, Beach, beauty, Being there, Black lesbians, Charmain Carrol, Collaborations, Collen Mfazwe and her girlfriend Nonkululeko Sandiba., community, Education, Experience, Expression, Faces and Phases participants, Family, friends, Fun, Homosexuality, Human beings, Inkanyiso crew, Johannesburg to Durban trip, Katiso Kgope, Laughter, Lebo Mashifane, Lebo Memela, Life, Living..., Love, Luh Cele, Muholi family, new friends, Parktown, Photography, Relationships, Requesting for freedom, Respect, Sea sand, Sexuality, Sharing experience, Thinking, Togetherness, Umlazi, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, When Faces meet, Words, Zandile Makhubu, Zanele Muholi | 1 Comment

2015 Jan.17: My Durban virgin- ity breaks

Posted on January 20, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Lebo Mashifane Woz’ eDurban (Come to Durban) Ukuhamba wukubona meaning “To explore is to experience”. The 2014 festive season was quite memorable as opposed to 2013 December holidays. Just like the first climax (orgasm), it was quite a revelation … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, South Africa, Vision, Visual activism, Visual activism is a language, Visual Activist, Visual Arts, Visual democracy, We Are You, We Care, We love each other, We love photographs, We Love Photography, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged Access, Act, Action, activism, Activists, Articles, artists, Arts, Audience, Beach, beauty, Black lesbians, Collaborations, community, Crowd, Durban, Education, Experience, Family, Feelings, Friendships, From Johannesburg to Durban, Home, Homosexuality, human rights, Inkanyiso media, KwaMashu township, Lebo Mashifane, Life, Living..., Love, Loving, Marimba band, My first time, Population, Relationships, Respect, Scene, Sea, self-entertain, Sexuality, South Africa, Tourism, Travel, Umlazi township, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Women, Zanele Muholi | 5 Comments

2015 Jan. 16: Non/Believers of New Year’s resolutions

Posted on January 20, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Interviews by Lebo ‘Leptie’ Phume For years now I’ve been jotting down my new years resolutions and not even once have I followed them. I now find it useless for me to waste my time and write them down knowing very well … Continue reading →

Posted in Archived memories, Collectivism, Community outreach, Community work, Conversation, Creating awareness, Creative Writing, Diversity, Healthier, Important, Individuals, Inner feelings, Power of the Voice, Present, Readings, Support, Textualizing Our Own Lives, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged Act, Action, Another approach is possible, Articles, Audience, beauty, Behind, Black lesbians, Collaborations, community, Complementing each other, Contributions, Education, Experience, Facebook, Family, Fashion, friends, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Interviews, Lebo 'Leptie' Phume, Life, Listening, Living..., Love, Names, Photography, Relationships, Resolutions, Respect, Responses, Sexuality, South Africa, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Words, works, Writing is a Right | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in ... with Lerato Dumse, 4 hrs drive from Johannesburg to Mafikeng, Another Approach Is Possible, Background, Being heard, Being Scene, Claiming mainstream spaces, Claiming the public spaces, Community visit, Difference, Different positions, Faces and Phases (2006-2014) introduction, Gay Umbrella, Inkanyiso media, North West, Records and histories, Reflections, Self acceptance, South Africa, Space, Together we can, We Are You, We Care, We love each other, We love photographs, We Love Photography, We Still Can with/out Resources, We were (t)here | Tagged Act, Action, activism, Activists, Articles, Audience, Black lesbians, Collaborations, community, Education, exhibition, Experience, Expression, Family, Feelings, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Life, Living..., Loving, Photography, Respect, Sexuality, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Women, Words, Zanele Muholi | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Archived memories, Creating awareness, Power of the Voice, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged Act, Action, activism, Activists, Another approach is possible, Art, Articles, artists, Arts, Audience, beauty, Better, Black butch wanders, Black Lesbian, Black lesbians, Butch surprise, Butch woman, Cape Town, Collaborations, Coming out again, community, Completion, Contentment, Education, Excited, Experience, Exploration, Expression, Family, Feelings, femininity, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Importance of writing, Johannesburg, Life, Living..., Loving, Nice, Own body, Photography, Portrait, Respect, Sexuality, Siba Nkumbi, Smile, society, South Africa, Unity, Visual activism, Visual history, Women, Wondering, Words, Writing is a Right, Writing is pleasurable | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in Archived memories, Beautiful, Being, Captured, Create, Creating awareness, Hidden, Identity, Legacy, Life Stories, Look at me, Memories, Mind, Moments, Mother, Nobody, Photographs, Poetry, Power of the Voice, Reflection, still frame, Strength, Time, Twist, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources, Writing is a Right | Tagged A tribute to Faces and Phases., Act, activism, Activists, Andiswa Dlamini, Another approach is possible, Art, Articles, artists, Audience, beauty, Black Lesbian, Black lesbians, Collaborations, community, Education, exhibition, Experience, Expression, Family, Feelings, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Life, Living..., Love, Loving, Photography, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality, South Africa, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Women, Words, Writing is a Right, Zanele Muholi | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in A new visual history, Beyond SA borders, Claiming mainstream spaces, Claiming the public spaces, Collaborations, Comfort, Comments from the audience, Commitment, Committed, Communication strategies, Community, Community based media, Community education, Community Mobilizing, Community organizing, Community outreach, Community work, Confession, Confrontation, Connected souls, Connections, Consent, Contests, Conversation, courage, Crea(c)tive senses, Creating awareness, Creative Writing, Creativity, Cultural activists, Culture, Culture of reading and writing, Details, Difference, Different positions, discourse, Discussion, Diversity, Documentation; Filming; Photography; Community, Documenting our own lives, Documenting realities of the townships, Embodies, Emotional support, Empowerment, Encounter, Endurance, Freedom, Individuals, Lesbian Love Is Possible in South Africa, Lesbianism, Lessons learnt, Life Stories, Mainstreaming our queer issues, Making a mark, Media works, Personification, Political injustices, Politics of existence, Politics of geography, Professionals, Publications, Recording, relative, Remembering, Report, Representation, Sexuality in South Africa, Sharing, Sharing knowledge, Sharing thoughts, Struggles, Support, Support is the system, Supporting each other, Supportive friends and families, Teachings, Transgenderism, Transphobia, Victimisation, Visual Activist, Visual Arts, Visual democracy, Visual diaries, Visual historical initiative | Tagged Act, Action, activism, Activists, Aging, Another approach is possible, Art, Articles, Audience, beauty, Black Lesbian, Black lesbians, Collaborations, community, Consistency, Education, exhibition, Exist, Experience, Expression, Face is the main, Faces and Phases book review, Family, Fashion, Feelings, friends, Friendships, Homosexuality, Human beings, human rights, Inkanyiso media, Johannesburg, Kopano Sibeko, Life, Living..., Love, Loving, Pain, Participants..., Photography, Realities, Relationships, Respect, Sexuality, South Africa, South African townships, Visual activism, Visual history, Voices, Words, Writing is a Right, Zanele Muholi | 3 Comments

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Tag Archives: Family

2015 Feb. 10: Another round for Norway

2015 Feb. 4: Kiss is a priority when you marry

2015 Jan. 18: “The millennium” lesbian life wasn’t “simple”

2015 Jan.17: My Durban virgin- ity breaks

2015 Jan. 16: Non/Believers of New Year’s resolutions

2014 Dec.23: Two days before Christmas in Mafikeng

2015 Jan. 4: Exploring my femininity as a butch

2014 Dec. 3: Beauty

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