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The New Sexual Radicalism

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— Peter Drucker

FROM ITS BEGINNING in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism,(1) emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.

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Visual activism to inform and educate on the issues of gender and sexuality in South Africa.

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 The following review of Zanele’s work currently on exhibit at Monash University, Australia, was written by Alicia Renew – Manager of the Faculty Gallery and Charlotte Lamont. The photographs are Zanele’s own.

Monash University’s South African artist in residence, Zanele Muholi, uses photography and artistic experimentation to explore issues of lesbian gender and sexuality in South Africa. Through her visual activism, Muholi seeks to educate different cultures and publics on the issues facing black South African lesbians. Faced by a myriad of obstacles ranging from access to adequate contraception to hate crimes such as rape and murder, Muholi documents and examines the difficulties black South African Lesbians face when trying to find a space of equality within a patriarchally and heterosexually dominated society.

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DESVIACIONES: otra perpectiva sobre lo que el Presidente Evo Morales declaro

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El 26 de abril la Asociación Internacional de Lesbianas, Trans, Gays, Bisexuales e Intersexuales para América Latina y el Caribe (ILGA-LAC) rechazo declaraciones del Presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, diciendo que el "afirmó que el consumo de pollo es una de las causas de la “desviación” hacia
la homosexualidad, formuladas en la I Conferencia Mundial de Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y la Madre Tierra.

La compa Magdalena León T. de FEDAEPS y REMTE de Ecuador ofrece otra perspective sobre el tema

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Multiple Identities and Multiple Discriminations

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in SOUTH AFRICA, 17/03/2010

Interview of Phumi Mtetwa by Patricia Curzi on racism and discrimination

Multiple Identities and Multiple Discriminations

Phumi Mtetwa is a black, South African, activist, well aware of by the realities of apartheid in South Africa (SA).

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EUSEBIUS MCKAISE

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THE media scores a Malema-like G for its performance last week. Ordinary South Africans were equally unimpressive. This follows the publication of the story about a used condom that had allegedly been found at the scene of the murder of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader Eugene TerreBlanche.

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