Too Late for Mama, Too Far for Baba
Reading note: An analysis of South African musical testimonies, attending to how song carries memory, grief and testimony across histories of violence and separation.
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Khawuleza Mama
Reading note: A child-centred view of apartheid and trauma, foregrounding how children experience, remember and carry the effects of racialised violence.
Read the paper ↗Reading the Parable of the Two Builders Again
A Luke 6:46-49 South African liberatory reading. This essay reads the parable through spatial injustice, colonialism and apartheid, shifting attention from blaming the vulnerable builder to naming the empire that controls the ground.
Read on Substack ↗The Long Shadow of the Phallus
From theology to psychology. A reflection on how masculine symbolism becomes attached to authority, shapes the psyche and naturalises patriarchy across religion, culture, institutions and everyday life.
Read on Substack ↗Why I Write the Black Experience?
Writing from the wound. This essay treats the Black body as a site of knowledge, memory and resistance, insisting that colonial and apartheid violence must be named before healing or forgiveness can be meaningful.
Read on Substack ↗Dreams are Colder than Death
Arthur Jafa’s film on Blackness, history, desire and the afterlives of racial violence.
Open resource ↗ DocumentaryMiners Shot Down
The Marikana massacre and the violence of power, work and public memory.
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Are we viewing God through our eyes?
Topollo Mokhathi
Decolonial readingThe idea of a Black God is to redeem Black people from suffering.
Yolanda Benya
RepresentationKilling the Egyptian is Moses’ journey to Black consciousness.
Thandi Gamedze
Black consciousnessWhose God is it?
David Melusi Nkosi
God questionIs the death of a “colonial God” possible?
Mzwandile Nkutha
ColonialityA theology of the penis.
Zenzile Molo
Gender justiceIs there no ram for Black women?
Jeanette Sibanda
Womanist readingToward hopelessness.
Thabo Mesilane
Audio reflectionReconstructing a gender-empowering alternative.
Buyiswa Putu
Gender justiceGod, what is your problem with the mentally ill?
Siyamthanda Mqhayisa & Luzuko Mzondo
Mental health