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In-depth interviews and features with queer creators, artists, musicians, designers, and entrepreneurs.

“Now I’m fearless - there isn’t a creative room I don’t feel I don’t belong in.”- S’BO GYRE

#queer south african artists #queer south african performer #Sbo Gyre

9 February 2023

“Work that has changed my life is work that makes me feel possible. I think I want someone to pick up my work and feel like they’re possible, too.” - Maneo Mohale

#queer south africans #maneo mohale #maneo mohale writer

7 September 2022

“Intersectionality is so important. Queerness is inherent in all of nature and should be visible in conversations around the environment and the climate crisis.” - Luke Rudman.

#queer artist #queer south african artists #Luke Rudman

“…all I know for sure is that I want to leave the world a better place than I found it. More love, more patience, more empathy, and more opportunity for my people.”- Courtnaé Paul

#courtnae paul #bgirl #DJ

“Owning your Queer identity speaks truth to power. Refuse to give up on something you believed in. Being consistent, kind and authentic to yourself is power.”- Kieron Jina

#queer south africans #queer south african artists #kieron jina

14 October 2020

“…to this day, I’m still taken aback when people say they figured out their sexuality because of me, or came out because of me. It’s powerful. I’m humbled.” - Sade Giliberti.

#queer creators #sade giliberti #sade giliberti yotv

9 September 2020

“The legacy I want to leave behind is to make sure that the queer community keeps celebrating themselves and have a big platform as well.” - Ntsikelelo Meslani aka Lelowhatsgood

#lelowhatsgood #Ntsikelelo Meslani #queer culture curator

“When I am onstage, I finally matter in the great expanse of the universe. I am here, and I am here to tell a story. I am here to inspire; I am here to be who I am, unapologetically.” - Yahto Kraft.

#yahto kraft #yahto kraft singer #thevoice

“Representation is a doing word, we have to all do it so that we don’t run the risk of having a dominant semiotic (meaning making) of queerness.”- Tandile Mbatsha

#queer artist #tandile mbatsha #tandile mbatsha performance artist

“It is very important for me as a choreographer to rewrite history and tell stories of the disenfranchised.”- Llewellyn Mnguni aka LuluBelle

#queer dancers #llewellyn mnguni #lulubelle

“I just want my art to be a giant playground and celebration of sexuality, nudity, creativity, gender fluidity and queer beauty.”- Ivan Vos aka Iviprofen

#gay art #erotic art #genderbend

“I am queer. I am Xhosa. I am an artist. I am a son. I am a brother. I am a change agent. I am all of those things at once, and they cannot be looked at in isolation.”-Bongani Njalo

#queer artists #bongani njalo #bongani njalo artist

“I’m a genderqueer mindfuck for most people.”-Umlilo.

#queer artist #queer south africans #umlilo