Lecture in Gay & Lesbian Studies
This performance and lecture by Zanele Muholi, a South African photographer and visual activist, is hosted by the Critical Gender Studies Program.
Focusing on the photographer's photos of South African "BLACK QUEER BORN FREES" featured in her Faces and Phases series, Muholi's lecture will explore the visual culture of black LGBTI youth from various South African townships. The visual activism approach will be used to understand realities of black queers born at the end of apartheid in South Africa, focusing mainly on visual expression of the Black Queer Born Frees. The new generation born in the post-apartheid era is also known as "Mandela's step great-grandchildren." The lecture will emphasize how the activist negotiated the production space/s interacting with those born from 1990 to 1994.