ENGL 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ingrid De Kok, Socalled, Zanele Muholi
5 Apr 2016
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Co-founder (2002) of the forum for empowerment of women (few) Founder (2009) of inkanyiso, a forum for queer and visual (acivist) media. 2016 recipient of ininity award for documentary journalism: mfa (2009) from ryerson university in toronto. Muholi sees her image-making as not only an act of acivism, but also as archive creaion. She says that the reason she speciically documents the black gay, lesbian and transgender community is to contest its so-called un-africanness": We, as black communiies, have not had our histories documented properly. Think of the poliics of the archive: muholi says when she came out, there were no images of people like her in the media, in public records. Patricia davison, ingrid de kok, ivan vladislavic on who decides what becomes collecive memory and how that memorializaion is presented. Lgbtqi: muholi careful to include i or intersex along with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer. Caster semenye: one piece a tribute to caster semenye.
