Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Mia Arderne has entrenched her debut novel in the northern Cape Town suburbs of her youth through its language, characters and their experiences, offering acute observations of contemporary South Africa.
The Joburg-based artist explores feelings of displacement and hollowness through digital collages that incorporate images of home and those who have come before.
Boswell’s forthcoming book And Wrote My Story Anyway archives the work of several women writers, positing that their fiction is a site of feminist theory. Her own fiction writing does the same.
The always deeply flawed and unequal conditions of labour for the artistic community have been revealed and made much worse by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a war against women by men, feminist mothering that teaches boys how to give and receive love is a radical political act.