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22nd
May

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We’re a source of amusement to white folks (and slave-like labour); an odd curiousity, a beast to tame and teach tricks like how to speak English, sing choral music, worship their god, dress appropriately. We were dressed appropriately when our women wore only short “skirts” and colourful bead necklaces; we were at ease with our bodies enough not to walk around with constant erections, we’re a cool people. The sexually repressed European settler-colonial whose churches had for centuries taught him that sex was a “sin” was horrified when he found a people who had normalised their sexuality, and not shamed it and hid it behind stiff corsets and layers of uncomfortable clothing. He was horrified that we never took the counter-intuitive concept of monogamy seriously; and he taught us his god would punish us in a lake of fire unless we covered “our” bodies in “their” clothes. I don’t have the statistics but I suspect that before this repression was introduced into our society, incidents of rape, if any, were much, much lower; and of disappearing fathers unable to carry out the Western model of marriage (just speculating here). When they arrived in the 1600s they raped so many indigenous women in the Cape that there was an entirely new community they named “The Bastards” - the modern day Coloureds. Our people never raped - they did! En masse! Their system is not working for us; it’s abnormal. Away with Western notions of how “we” should manage “our” bodies, “our” sexuality, “our” relationships, “our” spirituality, etc. If god wants us to be Christians he should tell us himself - not them.
22nd
May

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“Their system is not working for us.”
22nd
May

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“Let’s revive la Négritude and internationalise the Black Aesthetic we already have the infrastructure in The Black Diaspora…”
22nd
May

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“Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.” - Stephen Bantu Biko
22nd
May

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“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” - Nelson Mandela
21st
May

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“Newton exorcised the machine, not the ghost: surprisingly, the principles of contact mechanics are false, and it is necessary to invoke what Newton called an ‘occult quality’ to account for the simplest phenomena of nature, a fact that he and other scientists found disturbing and paradoxical…These moves also deprive us of any determinate notion of body or matter. The world is what it is, period. The domain of the ‘physical’ is nothing other than what we come more or less to understand, and hope to assimilate to the core natural sciences in some way, perhaps by modifying them radically, as has often been necessary With the collapse of the traditional theory of ‘matter’ or ‘body,’ metaphysical dualism becomes unstateable; similarly, such notions as ‘physicalism’ or ‘eliminative materialism’ lose any clear sense – unless some new notion of ‘physical’ is offered to replace the abandoned Cartesian concept.” - Noam Chomsky
18th
May

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“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” - George Orwell
17th
May

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DJ Sphectula (@sphectacula) and Thebe.
17th
May

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The Goons
17th
May

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Sundeck, Sun Coast, Durban