Hazel Kimani / Wokeness Desperate Measures: can gender-based violence be resolved?Black South African womxn are desperate for legislation to be part of their lived experience. Black South African womxn are desperate for l...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Cherrie Bomb // exhibiting the effects of the male on the femaleThis is not an attempt to fight the man. Nor is it an attempt to latch onto social campaigns like #MenAreTrash and #MeToo. Cherrie Bom...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Azania Forest and her artistic expressionAzania was the alternative name proposed for post-apartheid South Africa. During the racial segregation and discrimination of the era, the n...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Rights of Admission Reserved // How Gentrification and art washing can destroy the social capital of spaceWhen you are tucked comfortably into Johannesburg’s Northern suburbs, the word of inner city enclaves that accommodate you and your neighbou...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Afripedia to launch new platform to connect creatives with clients and each otherAfrica’s representation has been exhausting - it’s typically about poverty and her friends, disease, unemployment and corruption. From the W...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Thinking about de-gendering as a route to personhoodSo the first time I encountered the term ‘cisgender’ was on my colourful Twitter timeline. Some troll was ignorantly spewing his privilege a...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Faggotry (Embodied) // activating queer spaces with multidisciplinary artist Elijah NdoumbéSumming up everything that Elijah Ndoumbé encompasses is no easy task. The magnitude of their brilliance is enthralling and their approach i...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Chimurenga // an astonishing African resourceExtracting from the Afrocentrism of Fela Kuti (and more than a hundred creative writers, photographers and illustrators from Africa and its ...
Hazel Kimani / fashion SELFI Flagship Store // a natural sanctuarySince the inception of Celeste Arendse’s fashion brand, SELFI, inspiration has lived in the wells of her being and each garment is testament...
Hazel Kimani / fashion LA LOBA // harnessing the power of femininityRochelle “Rharha” Nembhard, multifaceted visual artist, has been a loyal customer of SELFI, a Cape Town based fashion brand owned by fashion...
Hazel Kimani / art&culture Gabrielle Goliath’s ELEGY // a deadly sonic experienceI am certain that it is impossible to shake off visual artist, Gabrielle Goliath’s, ELEGY performance. It has been weeks since I was part of...
Hazel Kimani / Features Anees Petersen // For those who don’t conform to the norm“TO THE HOMIES WHO’VE HATED DOUBTED AND LAUGHED, WHO COME TO US NOW FOR AFFILIATION, VALIDATION AND ANY FORM OF COME UP, THIS GARMENT IS...
