Black Looks
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The Spine
Posted: August 16, 2010, 7:25 pm by Rethabile
To a rock that towers above it and whose shadow it loves, thread is what spine is to brain, what tail squirts into sperm-head, how or why a tee braces a golf ball for that final, thwacking blow, what a child means to a parent, never caring how words come out as we didn’t the colour of rope used to pull us up the [...] -
James Baldwin 6: Beyond LGB
Posted: August 16, 2010, 4:11 pm by Mia Nikasimo
Via Baobab Graphics As an African seeing James Baldwin’s “Price of the Ticket” fired a life long interest in gender politics in me. Since then I have read Baldwin’s “Go tell it to the Mountain,” “Giovanni’s Room” and “Fire The Next Time” which explore issues of sexuality, race and spirituality. In “Go Tell It To The Mountain,” the unfortunate plight of [...] -
Conference on African Same-Sex Sexualities & Gender Diversity
Posted: August 16, 2010, 2:07 pm by Sokari
CALL FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS FOR THE CONFERENCE:AFRICAN SAME-SEX SEXUALITIES AND GENDER DIVERSITY: PRACTICES, IDENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES. Pretoria, South Africa, February 13-16, 2011 Conference objectives: • To promote understanding and further study of male and female same-sex sexual practices, identities and communities, including expressions of gender diversity, in Sub-Saharan Africa. • To promote understanding of social [...]
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