OF OUR CURRENT STATE

REFLECTIONS

 Being womxn in post-Apartheid Apartheid South Africa we acknowledge that we are beings that have been dispossessed from our land and from our identities. As part of our daily struggle, we revolt against this White Supremacist patriarchal capitalist system that oppresses us. This shoot was styled by Xhosa womxn as a reflection of our lived experience, as bodies that navigate space as both traditional and modern. It is reclamation of our culture and an acknowledged of where we are and vision of where we are going. Aluta Continua!”

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We also acknowledge the white gaze in the project and we felt we should highlight it as critique to ourselves and as a pursuit to create work that is honest, even in its flaws. This in itself is a reflection of our current state.

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