Nearly 200 years has passed and 16 years after the end of Apartheid South Africa and still the exploitation of Sara Baartman continues. And where is this taking place? In a shop in Johannesburg were china ornaments of Sara Baartman’s body are on sale amongst household wares and “colonial throw-back domestic workers [...]

I see the wisdom of eternities
in ample thighs
belying their presence as adornments
to the temples of my sisters
old souls breath
in the comfort of chocolate thickness
that suffocates Africa ’s angels
who dance to the rhythm of the universe’s womb
though they cannot feel its origins in their veins
Blessed am I to be love in the temple of my own [...]

Sandra Laing can’t remember who took her away from the whites only school when she was kicked out. She can’t remember if her Dad was a dickhead who hurt her mother. She can’t remember the details around her mother’s threats of suicide. She can’t remember the names of girls she was friends with at the [...]

I just got finished reading Judith Stone’s book, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (here is a video of the author reading from the book so that I don’t have to link to Amazon). It is the story of Sandra Laing and her family. Sandra was a girl [...]

I feel so proud and over joyed to be writing this post today. In spite of the struggle against transphobia and homophobia two exciting ground breaking pieces of work are happening in Africa which celebrate Transgender lives on the continent. The first is the launch of Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa [...]

In 1996 at the age of 24, South African lesbian film maker, Shelly Barry was shot through the spine and was paralysed from the chest down. In this courageous and powerful essay she tells of her journey to reclaim and once again love her body. She writes about society’s perceptions of [...]