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2015 Aug. 30: Losing and regaining self love

Posted on September 5, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

My life resembles the story line of the famous English book Dr Jackal and Mr Hyde. I was born Wandile Sincwala on the 17th of July 1988. Later in my teen years I was reborn as Somizy (Somgaga) as most people … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, Archived memories, Creating awareness, Expression, Power of the Voice, South Africa, Writing is a Right | Tagged Articles, Audience, Ball gowns, Beauty pageant, Beauty queens, Being, Born 17th July 1988 -, Competing, Confidence, contests, Crowned, Cultural Activists, Daveyton township, Diploma in Tourism, Education, Empowerment, Experience, Face, facial incident, Fashion, Feelings, Freedom, friends, Fun, Gay, Hairstylist, Homosexuality, Hospitalized, Human beings, human rights, Impact, Inspiration, Jewellery, Johannesburg, Lesiba Mothibe, LGBTI, Life, Lindeka Qampi, Living..., Love, Matric, Miss Black Pride, Miss Daveyton, Miss Gay Daveyton 2015, Miss Gay Ekurhuleni, Miss Gay Jozi, Miss Gay Queens of Queens., Miss Gay Soweto, Miss Gay Valentine, Miss Mzansi Pride 2014, Organisation, Pageants, Pain, Photographs, Qualification, Rehearsals, Relationships, Somizy Sincwala, Springs College, Standing tall, Student, Style, Support, Surprised, Survived, Time, Uthingo, Visual activism, Visual history, Words | 4 Comments

2015 Aug. 14: A football match like no other

Posted on August 18, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Text by Siba Nkumbi Photos by Lindeka Qampi Let me begin this one with a question: Why is it that in the history of South African women’s football, in fact women’s sports, we still have male coaches? Show me a … 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 A football match like no other, Active, Black Lesbian Soccer players in South Africa, Coaches, Collaborations, community, Discipline, Education, Emergencies, Experience, Expression, Faces and Phases participants, Falcons, Fans, Fashion, Feelings, Female players, Female sports, Fitness, Football, Friendships, frustration, Game, Gender politics, Goalkeeper, Goals, Healthy bodies, History, Human beings, in soccer, Inkanyiso media, Johannesburg, LGBTI society, Loving, Male coaches, Match, Mehlareng, Members, Motion, Names, Nationals, Noluntu Makalima, Official, Opposition, Photos by Lindeka Qampi, Politics of sponsorship, Power, Professional soccer, Recognition, Recreation, Red cards, Relationships, Respect, SAFA, Sasol Women’s League, Scoring, Siba Nkumbi, Soccer kit, South Africa, Spectacular, Sponsors, Sport Activism;, Sports, Stadium, Strategies, Striker, Support, Team, Tembisa, townships, Victory, Visual history, Voices, Women, Women Soccer Players in SA, Women's Soccer Match, Won, Words | 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. 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

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 24: LGBT network emerges from Shell

Posted on July 26, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Lerato Dumse After spending a year identifying, researching, reaching out, approaching, and convincing senior leaders, Linda Mayekiso succeeded in his plan to see Shell South Africa launch an LGBT network. This event was held on Tuesday, July 21 2015 … Continue reading →

Posted in Another Approach Is Possible, We Are You, We Care, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged 2015, Acceptance, Act, Against Discrimination, Beliefs, Bryanston, Comfort, Comfortable, Coming Out, Contribution, Corporate report, Creating a platform for dialogue, Discrimination is a crime, Education, Employees, Energy industry, equality, Experience, Expression, Gay professionals in SA, Graduate, Guest speaker, Healthy environment, human rights violations, inform and create an organization that is accepting of LGBT members, Initiative, Inkanyiso media, Johannesburg, Judge Edwin Cameron, July 21, Keynote address, Launch, Lerato Dumse, LGBT community, LGBT members at workplace, Linda Mayekiso, Network, network is to educate, Payment and Loyalty Manager, Persistence, Personal, Rejection, Safe environment, Service delivery, Session conducted in English, Sexual identity, Sexual orientation, Shell LGBT network, South Africa, Tribute, unite, Visibility, Visual history, Voices, Words, Workers, Writing is a Right, Writing our own | 2 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 15: Being given the opportunity to study photography

Posted on June 16, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

My name is Mamello Motaung, I started my career in photography at the Market Photo Workshop (MPW), on the 4th of March 2015. Zanele Muholi introduced me to MPW. The first week of my schooling was hectic. I didn’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Edutainment, Art is Queer, As we are, Before You, Black Lesbians, Camera, Confidence, Edited by Lerato Dumse, From Daveyton township with love, Knowledge, Muholi Internship & Mentorship Programme, Passion, Writing is a Right | Tagged Acceptance, Action, Activists, Another approach is possible, Archive, Article, beauty, Being, Black Lesbian photographers, Black lesbians, Blackness, Body, Camera work, Career, Collaborations, Culture, Democracy, Edited by Lerato Dumse, Faces and Phases, Inkanyiso media, Johannesburg, Judge, Knowledge, Learn, Life story, Live, Love, Loving, Mamello 'Meme' Motaung, Market Photo Workshop, Opportunity, Participants..., Photography, Relationships, Visual history, We love photographs, We love photography, Zanele Muholi | 1 Comment

2015 June 7: My Yithi Laba experience

Posted on June 13, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

by Shaz ‘Sicka Star-ban’ Mthunzi On Friday, 5th of June 2015 we had our first conference called Yithi Laba, it was one of many more to come in the future which will involve Faces and Phases participants from different fields hosted by … Continue reading →

Posted in Abantu, Activism, Allies, Archived memories, Archiving Queer Her/Histories in SA, Art Activism in South Africa, Art Edutainment, Art Is A Human Right, Black Queer & Gifted, Butch Mbokodo, Collectivism, Community Mobilizing, Filmmaking, Life, Love, Memory, Motivation, Opinion, Participation, Realities, Relationships, Shaz 'Sicka' Mthunzi, Short report, Visual activism, We are beautiful, We Are You, We love photographs, We Still Can with/out Resources | Tagged 2015, 21 Years of democracy, Acceptance, Act, Action, Another approach is possible, Art, Articles, “Kea” Refilwe Modise Moloto, beauty, Being, Black Lesbian Youth, Black lesbians, Bodies, Braamfontein, Christie van Zyl, Collaborations, community, Con Hill, Connections, Culture, Dedication, dialogue, Documenting our lives, Faces and Phases participants, Family, If not documented it means never existed, Inkanyiso media, Intergenerational movement, Johannesburg, Joy, Laughter, Lerato Dumse, Lindeka Qampi, Malibongwe Swane, Mothers, Mothers of Lesbians, Mzonke Madotyeni, Organizers, Our lives in the picture, Our pride, Participants..., Photography, Presentations, South Africa, Support, Words, Writing is a Right, Yithi Laba conference, Young Women's Initiatives, Zanele Muholi | 3 Comments

2015 June 5: Yithi Laba delegates on Constitution Hill tour

Posted on June 10, 2015 by inkanyiso2009

Text by Tinashe Wakapila Photos by Lindeka Qampi/ Inkanyiso Despite the fact that the place was a prison, race was a key factor that led to a lot of mistreatment and human dignity strip down due to the form of … Continue reading →

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2015 Aug. 30: Losing and regaining self love

2015 Aug. 14: A football match like no other

2015 Aug. 10: A true definition of reality

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

2015 July 24: LGBT network emerges from Shell

2015 June 15: Being given the opportunity to study photography

2015 June 7: My Yithi Laba experience

2015 June 5: Yithi Laba delegates on Constitution Hill tour

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