
Black women artists in a monumental exhibition
Spanning six decades and featuring more than 150 Black South African women, this art curation is an important intervention between the artists and the archive.
Spanning six decades and featuring more than 150 Black South African women, this art curation is an important intervention between the artists and the archive.
Titled Ilifa, her poetry collection breaks new ground in South African literary and feminist writing and shows a deft hand that impresses on many levels.
Mandisa Maya’s interview for the position of chief justice overflowed with patriarchal scripts and sexual innuendo that women suffer in the workplace and society.
Misappropriating the structures meant to help rape survivors reinforces patriarchal violence and creates a social context in which gender-based abuse is allowed to thrive.
Pumla Dineo Gqola shows that becoming fluent in the ‘women’ fear of men requires constant exposure through repetition of messages, warnings, inducements, symbolic lessons and explicit statements.
In his scholarly and creative work on performance – including popular political, cultural and literary forms – the late intellectual showed us how to move our narratives forward. But he was not done.
The Egyptian doctor and writer who died on 21 March never took her eye off the ways in which violent power mutates and demands constant vigilance, yet still believed that ‘hope is power’.
Her paintings in the Shame series and a new short film invite introspection from the viewer on the feeling in its various forms and in sites not often associated with it.
Nechama Brodie’s book is a historically conscious study of gender-based violence and femicide that traces the lineage of the feminist vocabulary developed to speak about and combat the phenomenon.
McKaiser’s show at Radio 702 became a home for many, a place to question and deeply engage with difficult aspects of South African society while shaping public culture.
Meditating on human rights and the coronavirus in South Africa, Pumla Dineo Gqola posits that the landscape of freedom after apartheid has cemented an old regime of movement.
There are many scripts that women are told to follow in the machinery of patriarchal fear taught by South African society.
The artist’s new exhibition, ‘This is a song for…’, interrupts song recordings in the manner of a stuck record to jar audience members into experiencing how rape continues to interject itself into the lives of eight women.