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Black Lesbians Represent On-Screen!
September 10, 2011 | ELIXHER 3
Last month, ELIXHER caught up with Saj Golde, star of the Showtime reality TV show The Real L Word, to chat about the importance of depicting Black lesbians in the media. It turns out that both Po and Dice, close friends of TV personality, La La, love ladies as well!Read More
Faces of Your Fears: Corrective Rape in South Africa
April 26, 2011 | ELIXHER
“Perhaps…I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself — a Black woman warrior poet doing my work — come to ask you, are you doing yours?” - Audre Lorde in “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
Eudy Simelane.
Millicent Gaika.
Mvuleni Fana.
Tumi Mkhuma.
Zoliswa Nkonyana.
Sizakele Sigasa.
Salome Massooa.
We honor you.
We love you.
Since 1998, over thirty lesbians have been killed in South Africa as a result of “corrective rape” (rape intended to punish a lesbian and believed to change or “correct” her sexuality). Some estimate that at least ten lesbians are raped or assaulted each week in Cape Town alone.
“I’m gonna teach you a lesson,” the attackers sometimes shout.
“You are not a man. I am the man.”
“You will see what you are missing.”
“Let me show you how to be a real woman.”
Their words pierce like daggers. Deep.
It was 2006 when 19-year-old Zoliswa Nkonyana was raped and killed by a gang of about twenty men. The case has been postponed thirty-three times. Five years later, justice is still unserved.
A horrendous double rape and murder of lesbian couple Sizakele Sigasa and Salome Massooa occured in July 2007. The women were tortured, gang raped and shot near their homes.
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