Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t give a damn about sports. I didn’t watch the match this past weekend and in fact, I did my utmost to avoid it, even going as far as skipping the Vogue Nights event I had been so looking forward to once I heard they’d be…
As a nihilistic sex worker who is typically shunned by every social group I come into contact with, baddie culture was once a safe haven. Back then, being a baddie meant that as a marginalised womxn, your power lay in your ability to take the sour lemons life laid at your feet and make sweet…
This season, P.A.M. and PUMA have collaborated to develop a line of clothes that blurs the distinction between streetwear and outdoor wear as part of a bigger, complex initiative called the PAM/PUMA BIO/VERSE, aimed to reestablish a connection with the ideas of community and environment. P.A.M., short for Perks and Mini, was founded in 2000…
How the multiplication of festivals and black artists as headliners has leveraged the Afro-referenced aesthetic and, together with the current ancestral rescue movements, is building bodies and communities of belonging and celebration. In 1969, in the United States, while Americans turned their eyes to Bethel, a village in upstate New York, where the first Woodstock…
What do we as outsiders imagine indigeneity to look like in an ever-growing globalised world? Are we captured, clutched firmly in the grasp of Western traditions and ideals that, for some reason, still attempt to dictate the tone and voice of our own histories and contemporary forms of expression? Furthermore, what does modern indigeneity look…
The year is 2017, the building is August House. Here, established and baby artists gather ceremoniously to water their artistic gardens into bloom. I’ve been revisiting the day we met, after you ascended from the body on the 11th of August. On the afternoon our worlds first collided, I sat quietly at a tiny desk…
Nobantu Lindiwe Msweli — or Noba for short — is a singer-songwriter originally from Mpumalanga and raised in Johannesburg. Since she was a young girl, all she knew was singing. She was always involved in choirs and singing programmes and by 2016, she earned first place in the “Battle of the High School Bands” for…
With the trajectory of film moving forward from the centralisation of big studio ideas and principles such as, Warner Brothers, Sony and Walt Disney, it is important to have a look at the new emergence of film houses producing some impactful work. Despite the cinematography, the important work that is being done is through alternative…
As Minister Nathi Mthethwa sits in an interview with the host of ‘Power to Truth’ Dr Onkgopotse JJ Tabane on ENCA and stumbles over a very hilariously poor explanation of why the country needs an erected R22-million South African flag with LED lights, there is a collective sigh from the mouths of the public. A…
“Tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.” Toni Morrison The body remembers — historical mythologies beating dusty fleshly whispers — but the body also forgets: its Self, its connectedness and its breath. You can hold your breath and count to ten But I don’t know…
Salvador is the first capital of Brazil and the Blackest city outside of Africa due to its native indigenous population and for having been the largest port of reception for enslaved Africans. Because of these multiple influences and affectations, a cultural effervescence center developed in the city. In 1974, the first Afro group in Brazil,…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the work of Igshaan Adams in relation to Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Using abstraction to guide him, Marx became well known as one of the most influential architects but for his work as a painter, ecologist and naturalist in the region. The patterns and intricate images of…
