tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670248642265568572024-02-01T23:40:29.038-08:00Jacqui The PoetBasadi Barena.Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-54575455523175770042020-02-13T04:29:00.001-08:002020-02-13T22:51:31.209-08:00Reflections from Pulpits, Platforms, Parliametary Podiums and Pedestals<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">From Pulpits we hear a lot... A lot of inspiration and motivation as well as condemnation and hatred based on fear. Prejudice too... Things about purgatory and pedophilia as well as real moments of divine presence and works... From the Pulpits we hear bo Omotoso condemning while up/lifting the skirts of women church folk in order to rape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">At the pulpit we hear marriage vows and witness babies being baptized... We also hear eulogies and bid farewell to the dead. At Pulpits altar boys sometimes sing in angelic voices, called and gifted by God, only for those who are declared the mouthpiece of gods to treat these children, the ones we should strife to be like according to the Christ, only for those to treat these innocents as their cum crucible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Not too different from how Africa is becoming, and in many ways has become, China's cum crucible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">The pulpit is also the place where the Writer James Baldwin, a Queer son of a pastor, found and lost himself... The pulpit, may bring you close to the God while removing and condemning you to not be worthy of that very same Love Unconditional, Agape, which is God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">From platforms we catch trains, that's in the literal sense of platforms... But from the other Platforms we are given or create we hear confusions, declarations as well as hope at times. We hear passions... Visions and motivations and often we are truly inspired... We also hear and see hypocrites with their hypocricies and men, it's often men on these platforms, wearing shoes that are too big for their small minds... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Shoes that were purchased to fit their over bloated sense of self and ego. From platforms we see the best and worst of what this world has to offer when it comes to (Hu) mankind... The metaphorically blind and deaf and mute... Pontificating... Talking in a language even they don't understand... Not in tongues, that belongs on Pulpits akere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">From Parliametary Podiums?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Yhu. That's a difficult one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Let me go sleep and ask those who dwell in the world of dreams to assists with this one... Selah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">God can be so rough and sadistic... Yhu!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">It rips me from days of comforting slumber, this God energy... And insists I finish this piece by 7am... As promised. It's now </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">5:55</span><span style="font-size: 1em;">am... And so we take over where we left off and continue this rough ride to rip the truth from our very veins and attempt, in written words, to bring it to light and life...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">What about Parliametary Podiums again?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Well... Re utlwa masepa fela most times really. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">People take up Podiums or are given Podiums and do weird shit like speak while they are in fact saying nothing. It's strange to watch a human puppet.. A prime example is our current president Buffalo... A proper puppet with an entire machinery of quite gifted and genuine people around him... To 'make him look good' ... As if concomitant action could ever look good... Restless among the oft' spoken about peace that's hardly realized are the souls of the murdered Marikana Lonmin mine workers... In which Cyril has shares... And I suppose the man was just doing what Capitalists do... Putting profits above people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Restless too among the many restless are those of the Lily mine workers left underground as their class and race does not deem them worthy to extract from the container that their bones just cannot rest in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Let's leave parliamentary Podiums, they make me angry. That's why I threw a placard at the lot as all they ever do is talk left and walk right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">I'm a GOOD member, but in terms of the circus parliament I support the disruptive actions of the EFF... It's a circus mos? EFF exposes the performative so called honorable institution called parly. In this space, galleries are performed to... Yes even as EFF performs, it does so to mock and expose puppets in parliament with performative power that they do not dare utilize except under the commands of their true (puppet) masters. We see you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Well pedestals are tricky. Pe</span><span style="font-size: 1em;">destals are places which people are lifted onto, by other people, who at any point in time can be removed from by those very same people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Pedestals are tricky af beloveds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">They are metaphorical shoulders... Shoulders of people... Dead and alive. They are scary, these pedestals. Everything on a pedestal is larger than life! The microphone on pedestals is massive. MASSIVE beloveds! The pedestal microphone amplifies the voice a </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">1000</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"> times over. From a pedestal even a house cat can seem and sound like a roaring lion. Pedestals? They are tricky... Because sometimes, once in a while, 'the right people' assume these pedestals and indeed, make a difference. But be weary of pedestals beloveds, they are built slowly and destroyed quickly... If you can, avoid pedestals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">We live in interesting times, times full of hope... Both empty and real hope. Times full of lies, so many lies and times filled with illuminating pockets of truth. Perhaps the most wonderful and intriguing quality of our times is how much finer we have become in our intuitive response to outside stimuli... For example the manufactured and attempted 'World War 3' created by Trumpism supported by the Right wing as AmeriKKKa continues its thievery by fire by force over oil wherever it sniffs it on this earth, particularly in The Middle East. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">We are much more able now, I believe as I witness, we are much more able to differentiate the weeds from the plants.. Truth from lies... We may choose as humans often do... To make ourselves happy by believing lies in spite of and despite our more awakened 6th and even 7th senses... Akere they say ignorance is bliss? And sometimes they've got a point shem... The need to put on oorklappies and just go with the flow don't say too much say the right thing and don't step on toes... The 3 see say hear nothing monkeys...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">There may not be one particular point to this reflection... In fact they may not be a point at all... But there will certainly be a seed planted somewhere, a thought birthed and a mind inspired and I pray a soul awakened and a heart made braver... Eyes opened to see more and spirit stirred towards all that is left unsaid between the spaces, but heard in the solar plexus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Thank you for reading, feedback always welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">And a special thanks to 1 of my favorite artists Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi for permission to use images of his extraordinary paintings in this piece. May we rise, somehow, someday... Someday soon beloveds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1em;">Reamogetse 'Jacqui The Poet' Dichabe. </span><br />
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Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-92139823071992680932018-11-03T21:53:00.003-07:002019-01-18T05:02:43.427-08:00A Love Letter To Myself<br />
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Dear Jacqui, the poet… I love you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love you when you don’t love yourself and I love you when
you do. I love you through the darkness and light and I love you when you are
being problematic. I love you when you are im/perfect and I love you as you
seek to learn and educate. I love that you stick to your guns and are also willing to
bend and compromise, I love you because I love you and you are You.</div>
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There has never been and can never be another like you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fuck, I love you when you are arrogant and confident and I love
it when you dance. I love your truthfulness and your
insane capacity to love in an often times loveless world and I love how you
have expanded your capacity to forgive even what you thought was unforgivable
before. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I absolutely love it when you go higher into Christ consciousness
and deeper into your ancestral roots. I love that you love God and I love that
you know what it is to be an atheist. I love that you love books, which
continuously save you and remind you that you are not mad, but it is the world
that is. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Child, I love that when you were just a child you owned your
sexuality in a world that could kill you for being you, and indeed does. I love
that you stood up to your mother and family, chosen and blood, so you could
live a life of truth. I love that not just the art but the life expressions of
Mathosa and Fassie inspired and continues to inspire you. More importantly, I love
how that inspiration has shaped your life's work and how you too, inspire
others to seek freedom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jacqui I'm absolutely in love with your "bo don’t care"
attitude! It keeps you alive. I urge you to never care about what the world and
others think but as your friend reminded you, to always live and perform for
the audience of one. Love, which is God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love that you have nurtured your talents and protected
your intellectual property, you value yourself. I also love that you finally
woke up to the fact that it is not money that is evil… nor power… but how we
use them that can be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let it be known that no one can ever have loved you as your
mother did, despite her faults, she birthed you. No one is perfect, let your mother's
life always be a reminder of that, and never ever stop cherishing her ability
to have shown you unconditional love. It is rare, even from mothers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love that you consult with a spiritual medium and I love
that you pray.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love your writing and cannot wait for the day it sees the
light of day in the form of a book, exactly as your medium and healer told you
it should be, erotic short stories. I love that you laugh at this and think of
your ancestors as unconventional types, exactly as you are, of course, you are
them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jacqui I love that you have sustained love for a long time
with Kgomotso and I love that you have continued to love and forgive each other
for so long. I love that you love children and animals, and that they too love
you. I love your soul. I love that you will not wait until death for others to
express posthumous love for you but that you express it to yourself, yourself. That’s
just who you are. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love that this letter may inspire others to love themselves,
warts and all, unconditionally too. It's just what you do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love how you love others but like your wife I also do wish
you would turn more of that love towards yourself, this is a great sign that
you are doing that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forgive yourself, just as you do others. Let your cup
overrun before you pour, and all the best for one of your best brain child's,
The church of queers. The Queers in the hereafter are waiting for it, kill it!<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is something to behold how huge you dream and how you
pursue those sometimes seemingly impossible dreams. You are star material, you
know this… your job is to remind others that they too are. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1love my heart… Reamogetse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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PS: God is Love. 💕🌈💜Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-60830555028968595752017-11-07T18:47:00.003-08:002017-11-08T04:31:27.115-08:00From Dusk To Dawn: A Black Feminist Symphony In 3 Parts (3/3)<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Part 3, Dawn: "We are the ones we have been waiting
for."</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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A people taught to hate self, systematically for centuries
and treated with Hatred will struggle to realise the Truth of Love, starting
with Self Love as a vital cornerstone in our route towards Uhuru.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is not a mistake that even as he carried arms, Che
Guevara proclaimed true feelings of Love to be what GUIDES a Revolutionary. No
truer words have been spoken. Anyone who is a true revolutionary in any way or
manner, will know this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love is an important part of the answer. A crucial part of
the answer and in fact leads us to the next level and I would argue the
cornerstone of our centuries' old Revolution in a bid for True Liberation for
All.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the context of Black Feminists in particular, to whom I'm
speaking… Self Love is indeed a radical and revolutionary act and practice in a
world that has shown and continue to show by its violent deeds upon our bodies that it hates us!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let's be tired of playing "the second sex" and
Deputies to Black men and "the second race" to White women! Let's put
ourselves and insist on self Love and Self care as necessary for our Survival.
Let's not compromise on this one. When
the Black Radical Hoteps and the White Liberal Feminists belittle our agency to
prioritize Love in our own Lives let's not be surprised. Men and Whites have
been and continue to be those who visit the most violence upon our bodies. they benefit the most from our oppression! People like that will oppose a call for those they have violated and continue
to Oppress to finally CHOOSE SELF! Let's choose self and just like our mothers
and grandmothers and their mothers and grandmothers were carried by their fervent
Spirituality... and able to constantly reproduce Jesus Christ's miracle of
multiplying Fish and Bread to feed multitudes, as they somehow managed to survive
and birth us and grow us and we are Surviving …let's look to Spirituality, in our own terms
and definitions, as a possible Guide and Light in our Journey towards our own
complete Emancipation.</div>
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This 3 Part Black Feminist Symphony ends with a call to
Black Feminists, especially in South Africa, to think seriously about the
formation of an organized Movement that will centre our Struggles as
priorities, and find ways of continuing to use new weapons more impactfully to
make a real and lasting change not only in our own Lives but for those who will
come after.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let us be the generation that stands on millions of other
shoulders that have brought us thus far.
Let us be the straw that break the back of the White Heteronormative
Supremacist System! With Radical Self Love, anything is possible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>Passaggio:</u><i> <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>~As the sun rises and upon the horizon a new Dawn breaks A Voice of a
Poet recites these words… <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>"Children Of The Light/ Lighten up your souls so that you can fly/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Realise the miracle of breath/ Its source is Divinity it never dies... Throughout Infinity/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>In worlds and spaces beyond our conception/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>The breath remains the source of all Creation/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>It is in aligning with this Life force that we know what it is to be
one with creation beyond our conception/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Such is the... Blessing that we call Lifefe/ not bound by time/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>We are children of sun the sustainer of life/ children of the moon the
balancer of life/ Father by day and Mother by night/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>And so with the gentleness of a dove we shall have to fly/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>With the force of the phoenix we shall have to rise/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Children of the light, RISE!/ Awake from your sleep and seek for ye
shall find/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>SEEK! Not only in churches and synagogues and temples and mosques but
SEEK!...<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Also in the corners of your hearts/ <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>For just as men of wisdom and women of strength have left us sacred
messages/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Like... rock art paintings and hieroglyphs on pyramid walls or... text in
sacred scrolls,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>These words are but Igniters/ keys to the mind of God whose Love reigns
supreme within us/<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>They are shadows cast by the light that is Eternal Life/ I pray you'll see the shadows for what they are/ And I pray that in this Lifetime/You'll be able to turn around and towards the Light/ RISE!!!</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Part 2,
Midnight: Mrs Simelane - The True Definition O</b></span><b>f An Intersectional Feminist.</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Where is the
South African Intersectional Feminist Movement?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The South
African Feminist landscape in general and the
LGBTI/QUEER landscape in particular
is not just peppered but littered with supremely gifted individuals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are in
all areas of society, in all industries, across all spheres of government,
politics, business, civil society movements, media, academia, religion,
tradition, art and culture, justice system, NGO’s… Queer people are everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why is it
then that black queer bodies continue to be battle sites for fragile and toxic
masculinities to take out its feeling of lack, less than, no confidence, pure
old envy against black queer bodies in general and especially black lesbians
bodies in the townships?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How is this
so called community of influential, smart, gifted, creative, hard working,
loving, in many ways priviledged group of people has not flexed its muscles
hard enough to stop the scourge of the senseless and brutal killings and rape
of black queer bodies in the townships? Is it because they are black? Is it
because they are women. Is it because they are queer/? Is it because they are
poor?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Intersectionality
tells us that is because of all of the above.
Black Feminism’s ideology, which is the ideology of our times, tells us
that since oppressions intersect, it is on those bodies on which a myriad of
knots of oppressions are tied together, that the most pain is felt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She says she
cried when she heard me recite poetry. I wasn’t aware, it had been one of those
recitals where the Spirit takes over and one is left temporarily in a trance.
What I do know is that I noticed her as She entered the room, the oldest
Activist in our presence. I noted her style and liked it, it reminded me of the
Mshozas of yesterday, as the word was originally meant, basically the female
pantsulas of their era. At first I thought she was wearing a long skirt then
noticed upon closer inspection that they were slacks. On her feet she has on
takkies, worn not for their style but their need as the kind of shoes that
accompany the elderly activist everywhere she goes as she fights for social
justice in all areas of her society where she encounters injustice and in
particular homophobia, especially among the LGBTI youth in her community. Mme
fights for LGBTI students to be treated with fairness and respect, in schools
she fights for them in police stations too and courts when the so called
justice system attempts to victimize them a 2nd time and worsen their traumas.
Mme is there in churches too and fights for us, God's Queer Children, right in
the heart of Religious Traditional Patriarchy which hurts us as acutely as
White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy. Mme stands for these bodies that are battle
ground and upon whom the most points of intersecting struggles, are found.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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heterosexual older black woman married to her life partner, Eudy's father and
her husband, her love and cause and passion and activism towards bettering and
indeed liberating many with her heart and Spirit work, remains in my books the
grandest living example of what an Instersectional Black Feminist should look
like, in as far as the works of her hands, her body, her mind, heart spirit and
feet, those feet that have walked and continue to walk into hospitals,
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continuing, she makes me do this. She doesn’t let me rest that one." - she
says later to me after we had formally met and agreed to be each other's
second chance at being mother and daughter, since we both lost our own…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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consciousness I had not heard before from people of her generation, our mothers
and grandmothers... in as far as fighting for their Queer children is conerned. Her child having suffered, brutalized and murdered so
violently in Kwa Thema where the Simelane's live, Eudy's mother told the story
of her only child, from the time they were born until their senseless spine
chilling brutal killing. One of the many souls and bodies lost senselessly and
often with extreme violence and brutality for being a Black Lesbian in the
townships! I don’t think there was dry eye in that room of seasoned activists
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on to talk about her activism as a Black feminist, even though she did not call
it that. In retrospect I and the others
were listening to an embodiment of an Intersectional Feminist, in its
ideal. But it was when mme prayed for
us, "isitabane saka Thixo" as she put it, asking God to guide our
feet and protect us in our Activisms and the works we do that I was deeply
moved and inspired to do all I can to create a space for the Spirit that is of
God embodied in Queer bodies to have a place to worship without prejudice.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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/There is blood everywhere/ Black women and children are
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In South Africa the stench of fear permeates the air with
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kicks and belts and extension cords and slaps and racist verbs in attack and
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In South Africa it
is not only hard to breathe if yours is a black woman's body but breathing
itself is a chore that suffocates... you know that with each breath you
fight for you are counting moments of survival… moments of survival before there WILL be another
death, another rape, another suicide and
another beating… and another, and another, and another, hour after hour,and minute
after minute there will be a fist, a rock, a bottle, a slap, a stare, a swear
word, a penis, a kick, poverty, mental illness brutalizing yet another black
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Love is the essence of who we are, the essence of what
Freedom should feel like… as much as we painfully concede that many may have
died for a little, their blood was worth much more… their dreams remain our
dreams and so we also are willing to take up the fight in a new direction and
ensure that in our lifetime… Solomon Mahlangu's tree of freedom starts
bearing the right fruits. He told them to tell us that he loves us, and that
the struggle must be continued, he said the tree of freedom he dreamt of would
bear a thousand flowering seeds of freedom, instead we don’t feel love but
hatred visited upon us, the struggle has long been abandoned by self serving
former liberators turned state looters, aluta continua and we don’t even
own the land upon which this tree can
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<b><i>"As the CONDUCTOR instructs for
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surgeon's scalpel must slice and cut deeper and scrape the core of the wounds,
the illnesses known as dis-eases in order to heal it completely as not to risk
re-infection by being too gentle, too feeling when they ought to have been cold
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<b><i>Charlotte Maxeke's wail is heard at the sight of the toothless
patriachy's princesses, anti-feminist organization She formed called the ANC
Women's League… An organization that a living legend warrior woman in the form
of Madikizela does not associate with anymore.
An organization that is now equivalent to tea ladies - abomama who only
know how to worship at the phallic altar of abobaba - while at the same time
stoning their children in the form of political stones while screaming BURN THE
WITCH... BURN THE WITCH! after ubaba - umalume - rapes his
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it rattles awake the bones of Mbuya Nehanda whose own weeping sounds like
shrills of the type of cry that shreds to pieces your senses and rips the very
heart out of its ribcage in order to blow some soothing air upon it, anything
to stop the centuries old war on black bodies, black women's bodies that end up
killed at the hands of those they seek to liberate… Nehanda cries in a song the
ears refuse to hear, a cry that torments the spirit as her bones remind us
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It was a night full of splendor, colour, music, poetry, food, wine, laughter, love and memories that we, the intimate few who made it into that space, will forever treasure.</div>
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Lyricnotic launched herself as a multi faceted performer, a singer, poet and dancer... The night was crisp and the air was filled with chit chat... </div>
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With low lighting, wooden floors and black and white tiles the space looked exactly as had been promised, Motown was in town.</div>
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About 60 Capetonians and a few visitors enjoyed the starters while I took to the stage as MC for the night to announce the programme. We were to enjoy 3 poets before the main course, Kneo Makgopa, Kyle Louw & Lebohang "Faro Afrika" Doubata.</div>
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Lyricnotic took to the stage later looking every bit the star of the night with hair and beauty products sponsored by John's Touch Hair & Beauty Salon, and her clothes sponsored by the designer Nceba Jadezweni of Custom Transition.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Omnyama & Friend</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqui & Vangi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Van & Honey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nova</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunghi & Omnyama</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The filming crew.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_3pKwNrlsv9rctrzCDbkdyGotNYq6t6HD8bMH3_4HrKL9lipOJjPEvfoexjlIJWsHZuu5ArI9umyWtrol4CH78sgPzT5CntZkAxVzPKeknixmETLNgJOZF3FO-ibsNA10M0nZS5TZZJu/s1600/_MG_5255.CR2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_3pKwNrlsv9rctrzCDbkdyGotNYq6t6HD8bMH3_4HrKL9lipOJjPEvfoexjlIJWsHZuu5ArI9umyWtrol4CH78sgPzT5CntZkAxVzPKeknixmETLNgJOZF3FO-ibsNA10M0nZS5TZZJu/s320/_MG_5255.CR2" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunghi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Honey, Kgomotso & Jacqui</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner, the night before.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nova, Jacqui & Kgomotso</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nova, Omnyama & Kgomotso</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vangi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sivu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sivu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacqui & Kgomotso</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nico, Masello, Omnyama, Kgomotso, Jacqui & Siya</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The PowertreeJHB stage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Khanyisile</td></tr>
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<br />Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-10308155395334125902012-04-20T00:12:00.001-07:002012-04-20T00:26:24.703-07:00Kulture Noir: The third-eye-opening music of Simphiwe Dana<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"></span></span><br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziBKWsLBGjP0wh8XL0w9qljs5AocFD4GoNt7pYM5TDXdIJ27rkVPGtOWsHFgTxVpMiuyp3J7DWLotf7oA7Oy0EbSmV1BqDAGrX6Uqhyw0JLpz9_dkJarNxpGzMX_hr2Zuylwb-KrtKUC3/s1600/kulture+noir2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziBKWsLBGjP0wh8XL0w9qljs5AocFD4GoNt7pYM5TDXdIJ27rkVPGtOWsHFgTxVpMiuyp3J7DWLotf7oA7Oy0EbSmV1BqDAGrX6Uqhyw0JLpz9_dkJarNxpGzMX_hr2Zuylwb-KrtKUC3/s200/kulture+noir2.jpg" width="165" /></a></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">there exists a world just beyond the veil… </span></b></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">slightly beyond the minds' grasp…</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">indescribable… my spiritual teacher called it the unknowable'… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">there are some among us, seers, diviners, yogis, saints, artists, philosophers, mystics, prophets and so on who are able to </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">constantly or once in a while take a peek at this world and enable others to do the same… … while on this plane … in this life…. </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sometimes when we pray fervently... feel deeply or meditate on any particular thing long enough, we reach a state of mind that allows the veil to this world to be lifted... albeit momentarily.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpEBcmQxZUOgF3HU_1jrrAlbVfabYiTf4ZGRbN1UEcfpBVp_Dy4HHMwEPVusIFMEK7Q70N2ZTlYmPryjUG0EObVsHpR9y6wwfnYtUDm4i_uuvQuV_AJuPktukpADOv-mkBkqxhK8FrbIX/s1600/mhlongo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpEBcmQxZUOgF3HU_1jrrAlbVfabYiTf4ZGRbN1UEcfpBVp_Dy4HHMwEPVusIFMEK7Q70N2ZTlYmPryjUG0EObVsHpR9y6wwfnYtUDm4i_uuvQuV_AJuPktukpADOv-mkBkqxhK8FrbIX/s200/mhlongo.jpg" width="200" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we've been blessed to have among our generation artists who despite and in spite of difficulties... being ostracised and snubbed by babylon's authority in SA music... better known as the SAMAs... continue to gift us with gems that we'll be swinging to, thinking of, teaching, learning and talking about well into our senile times....</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #666666;">these are the sort of artists who are rooted in the same defiant and revolution/arising conscious sounds of the makebas and mhlongos of yesteryear...</b></span></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">mazwai and dana are the two who are easiest to spot among our generation...</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it often takes more than one offering to know for sure.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it is Dana's <i>Kulture Noir</i> ('Black Culture') album i wish to reflect upon….</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgArALADmx6hilXlxqqzrF3-UevjfzJ3xJD77zPYArliToBHnXJDNLBOwpK96DbR5YWGY166amv6zfLQURYjbB93l-SuDaMW2z3-Pk1Ao-2Iv5KD9L5Sg-0Ruemm3wmVV6FH7WPhFTkmQKk/s1600/Simphiwe-Dana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgArALADmx6hilXlxqqzrF3-UevjfzJ3xJD77zPYArliToBHnXJDNLBOwpK96DbR5YWGY166amv6zfLQURYjbB93l-SuDaMW2z3-Pk1Ao-2Iv5KD9L5Sg-0Ruemm3wmVV6FH7WPhFTkmQKk/s1600/Simphiwe-Dana.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">…there are a few things in life that speak to the soul more than music…. there are a few in music who are as spiritually attuned as Simphiwe Dana…</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">when i learnt on her live dvd sleeve that "her music is now part of the curriculum at prestigious universities such as Oxford University in England and other </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">academic institutions." the saying 'a prophet is never appreciated in their own country' came to mind…</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">how else does one explain the complete snubbing of this brilliant offering at last year's SAMAs? </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"<i>this one is for the nomads</i>" she writes on her album sleeve… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with just words sung and instruments played…. <i>Kulture Noir </i>inspires one to look within for all they seek without… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the 1st track… <i>Mina Nawe</i>… is a track whose essence i'm not certain words can ever capture…</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then there are the 2 musical chants… laid down on the 3rd and 11th tracks… both under 2 minutes long… both hauntingly magical.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">fairy-bells if you will… sprinklings of star dust that remind us in the 2 songs that follow these chants…. <i>mina iqhawe </i>and <i>inkwenkwenzi… that we are cosmic beings</i>… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBoyG-hRRSTgfNYPyNHHu1qb9ILptk4aln6CWO8xSS49-jIbpItOsXOBBldltWuWX6jmONyiZbDQ6oAB_w6ktwNcR_HGPvi1CRKNBxt2tuCNyZNCbF4JGCHAPLPqaLkgnuZUIur6KdgYI/s1600/kulturenoir11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXBoyG-hRRSTgfNYPyNHHu1qb9ILptk4aln6CWO8xSS49-jIbpItOsXOBBldltWuWX6jmONyiZbDQ6oAB_w6ktwNcR_HGPvi1CRKNBxt2tuCNyZNCbF4JGCHAPLPqaLkgnuZUIur6KdgYI/s1600/kulturenoir11.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in souls and minds that are ripe for awakening… <i>Kulture Noir </i>births a vision of Azania whose people do not live like slaves on their ancestors land…. no longer living lives that look, smell and feel like remnants of the grime that is left behind after the </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">purification process… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and then there is <i>mayine…</i> a hymn that probes us in those depths we weren't aware were reachable… those areas of the self we keep well-hidden… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the sort of depths that one would rather leave for an "illuminated master" to probe… to some extent it dares us to BE the master… Asking us questions that require </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">answers that we have not yet taught the mind to answer…</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if not in any other song on <i>Kulture Noir</i> then definitely on this song… <i>Mayine</i>… the veil gets lifted.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Kulture Noir</i> digs into a past and brings into the present a musical experience that reflects a space and place where humans identify primarily as spirit… and not as dying and decaying bodies… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in a 60 minute long conscious music experience divided into 12 tracks… Simphiwe thrusts her Artistic spirit into one's soul with such a gentle force one could be forgiven for missing it…</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinadu0eoG8rkxtwBUsQSl7WImM_4g8jePXKzgwucQOF40Xrp9mFEPv2sT_i8pNFU1PgtJGwV-YLzXso9XN_x8PF3DKYt62ja-cAUmCfQvtxiB2BTeK5n_Nd2i74Xe5BG7FYnGC2LuLpEk-/s1600/kulturenoir1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinadu0eoG8rkxtwBUsQSl7WImM_4g8jePXKzgwucQOF40Xrp9mFEPv2sT_i8pNFU1PgtJGwV-YLzXso9XN_x8PF3DKYt62ja-cAUmCfQvtxiB2BTeK5n_Nd2i74Xe5BG7FYnGC2LuLpEk-/s1600/kulturenoir1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Kulture Noir </i>is a musical masterpiece… a timeless classic… world class universities recognise this… Whoever was behind its snubbing at the SAMA2011 denied Azania a chance at self-reflection… Azanian's people are poorer for it.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if you are unfortunate enough not to have heard this album in its entirety… do yourself a favour and rectify that misfortune.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if i could put it any other way i would say that Kulture Noir is not just an honest and truthful artistic expression… but is also a rare reflection of a true artist's spirit in communion with its Creator… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dana gives a bit of her soul on this one… as she has twice before before… this time though… she bares her soul in its entirety while delicately inviting the listener to do the same… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcD7n06s4aGWAhkTTkzRYmywVVESo_5OxZyiOJ-m1VUXFr9OmVK2ChyphenhyphenS8ICjk55Fw0nNxn10wSJIu_1VIHZb0RyZiiBTzLzu_iMeL55QGFNxPavVt8CfueUgH8zuJhXg4Z-U6CekdLucH/s1600/ankh.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcD7n06s4aGWAhkTTkzRYmywVVESo_5OxZyiOJ-m1VUXFr9OmVK2ChyphenhyphenS8ICjk55Fw0nNxn10wSJIu_1VIHZb0RyZiiBTzLzu_iMeL55QGFNxPavVt8CfueUgH8zuJhXg4Z-U6CekdLucH/s200/ankh.gif" width="149" /></a></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Those who dare to do just that are able to take a glimpse through her artistic expression at a world within themselves I write about at the beginning of this reflection… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"a world just beyond the veil… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">slightly beyond the minds' grasp… </span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">indescribable… "</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thank you for the music… Sinethemba...</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-size: small; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #666666;">*1Love.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: small;"></div></div>Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-71131196320716583302012-02-21T08:34:00.001-08:002012-02-21T23:00:33.821-08:00Poetic thoughtsjumbled up...<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">more and more lately there just hasn't been time to write.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">i stop mid sentence when i attempt to write and i refuse to stick to a topic.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">preferring to write in themes i allow the self to be led by words and leave all rules that tell me </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">should, would, could and must to shut up in the presence of the mighty WILL.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">it's like that. without warning, sometimes a period sneaks through.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">so if writing is the chosen labour then i might as well get on with the business of writing and </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">stick with it.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">i've done the whole 9 yards.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">entry level, work experience, part this and part that, different stars</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">same experience…</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">i want to serve my Creator.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">again and again i whisper where dissident voices have become swear words and dare to swear</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">minds come into play.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">some sort of dance and so we pause. we pause often times to recollect a time gone, a time </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">forgotten and sometime remembered… in a trance...</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div>Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-29198352069042224832012-01-12T09:15:00.000-08:002012-01-12T10:09:56.687-08:00malcolm x on the field negro and the house negro...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CJWvEDMs24vut_GfoUS9s0yMq0TfuylKmXD6oCZ23QAtnCJbz8o-o6ZQSWL5wQB5FJWE0c_GMjYGf5w652k5LPC2gkZ-x-uyDNHvDTPr9Ff61wER146d8s3FVdTD8gChm-h768icceBd/s1600/malcom+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CJWvEDMs24vut_GfoUS9s0yMq0TfuylKmXD6oCZ23QAtnCJbz8o-o6ZQSWL5wQB5FJWE0c_GMjYGf5w652k5LPC2gkZ-x-uyDNHvDTPr9Ff61wER146d8s3FVdTD8gChm-h768icceBd/s320/malcom+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"There was two kind of slaves. There was the house negro and the field </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">negro. The house negro, they lived in the house, with master. They </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">dressed pretty good. They ate good, cause they ate his food, what he left. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">master, and they loved their master, more than their master loved </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">himself. They would give their life to save their masters house quicker </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">than their master would. The house negro, if the master said "we got a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">good house here" the house negro say "yeah, we got a good house here". </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Whenever the master would said we, he'd say we. That's how you can </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">tell a house negro. If the master's house caught on fire, the house negro </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">master got sick, the house negro would say "What's the matter, boss, we </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master, more than the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">master identified with himself. And if you came to the house negro and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">said "Let's run away, Let's escape, Let's separate" the house negro would </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">look at you and say "Man, you crazy. What you mean separate? Where </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">this? Where can I eat better food than this?" There was that house </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">negro. In those days, he was called a house nigger. And that's what we </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">call him today, because we still got some house niggers runnin around </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">here. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWfLqTL5oEaNHhoJ4jS1uQ1B_Hrzr3RCd8UucBcK0FohL6R9p1Ply5iyaF3BQ0yFlq5QPyuCUZAYvREnXMp3Vd5iLCYsFiP6aB7JgeWBROxOv0_QE8Li9rGQPzUJrZOfBtaj_vIUC7pvf/s1600/Malcolm+X+Wallpaper__yvt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWfLqTL5oEaNHhoJ4jS1uQ1B_Hrzr3RCd8UucBcK0FohL6R9p1Ply5iyaF3BQ0yFlq5QPyuCUZAYvREnXMp3Vd5iLCYsFiP6aB7JgeWBROxOv0_QE8Li9rGQPzUJrZOfBtaj_vIUC7pvf/s320/Malcolm+X+Wallpaper__yvt2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">This modern house negro loves his master. He wants to live near </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">his master, and then brag about "I'm the only negro out here. I'm the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">only one on my job. I'm the only one in this school." "You're nothing but </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">a house negro. And if someone come to you right now and say "Let's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">separate.", you say the same thing that the house negro said on the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">plantation. "What you mean separate? From America? This good white </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">land? Where you gonna get a better job than you get here? I mean, this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">is what you say! "I di-I ain't left nothing in Africa" That's what you say. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Why, you left your mind in Africa". On that same plantation, there was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the field negro. The field negro, those were the masses. There was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">always more negros in the field as there were negros in the house. There </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house, they ate </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">high up on the hog. The negro in the field didn't get nothing but what </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">was left in the insides of the hog. They call them chit'lins nowaday. In </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">those days, they called them what they were, guts! That's what you </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">were, a guteater. And some of you are still guteaters. The field negro </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">was beaten, from morning til night. He lived in a shack, in a hut. He </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">wore cast-off clothes. He hated his master. I say, he hated his master. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">He was intelligent. That house negro loved his master. But that field </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">negro, remember, they were in the majority, and they hated their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try to put it out, that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">field negro prayed for a wind. For a breeze. When the master got sick, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the field negro prayed that he died. If someone come to the field negro </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">and said "Let's separate, let's run." He didn't say "Where we going?" he </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">said "Any place is better than here". We got field negros in America </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">today. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5HMlq0FzyZiRd_nWv81cufhWdaiBHoBtL1zSGqBTAg08_riwLdESQg_rim6WwXDWt3ifdS4o65vnZTvlFOhebAfdKv0ZNmf1Lk5TRNtOqgbionYCZHxKDlHPkUbuKudzFSvXzKKYGqmCc/s1600/malcolm+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5HMlq0FzyZiRd_nWv81cufhWdaiBHoBtL1zSGqBTAg08_riwLdESQg_rim6WwXDWt3ifdS4o65vnZTvlFOhebAfdKv0ZNmf1Lk5TRNtOqgbionYCZHxKDlHPkUbuKudzFSvXzKKYGqmCc/s400/malcolm+7.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I'm a field negro.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> masses are the field negros. When they see </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">this mans house on fire, we don't hear these little negros talkin bout </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Our Government is in trouble. They say thee Government is in trouble." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Imagine a negro, "Our Government". I even heard one say "Our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">astronauts." They won't even let him near the plant, and "Our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">astronauts". "Our neighbors" That's a negro that's out of his mind. That's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">a negro that's out of his mind! Just cause the slave master in that day, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">used Tom, to keep the field negroes in check. The same ol slavemaster </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">today has negros who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms. 20th </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">century Uncle Toms to keep you and me in check. Keep us under </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">control. Keep us passive and peaceful. And nonviolent. That's Tom </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">making you nonviolent. It's like when you go to the dentist and the man </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">is going to take your tooth. You're going to fight him when he start </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">pulling. So they squirt some stuff in your jaw called novocane, to make </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">you think their not doing anything to you. So you sit there and because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">you got all that novocane in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Hahahaha. </span></span></div>Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-69407732095195914242012-01-04T03:21:00.000-08:002012-01-04T03:37:30.668-08:00leave our bodies the fuck alone!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Been meaning to write about women Gods and leaders in the Afrikan context for a while... Recent developments in our continuously troubled and constantly sexist patriarchal society has made it almost impossible to reach a space where women WERE/ARE Gods... the disgusting chauvinist acts by a mostly rude, lewd and hugely sexist section of our society have unfortunately spilled out of my ink first!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace;"></span><br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">The sexual assault of the young girls at Noord taxi rank was only but a proverbial 'tip of the iceberg' of our troubled, continuously sexist society that has normalised </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">violence towards the black woman</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">... it is those black men who receive the worst beating by a anti-black world... One who sees himself as the most worthless... cosatu's castro ngobese called them the "taxi rank lumpen, or the dangerous class" ... those who more visibly use the black woman's body to try and reaffirm his worth... continuously inflicting violence on the only other creature his upbringing made him believe is beneath him... </span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">The black man's constant abuse, rape and killing of black women is a reflection of a being that despises itself... A being that has long forgotten that it's very existence is largely owed to the black woman... It's very ability to breathe today is thanks to three-quarter's of a year's WORK followed by painful labour by a black woman's body to bring it to life... It is only a soulless being that can rape, beat and murder it's own mothers, it's own grandmothers, daughters, sisters, cousins and aunts at such alarming rates... our crime statistics... Which are mostly violence on the black female body... Are like those of other countries at war!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><b>There's a war on the black female in this Goddess-forsaken country!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><b><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">From your unwelcome lustful looks and whistling and advances and unwelcome touchings and rapes and killings... looking for your long lost "manhood" between our legs... beating your own life-givers to their graves is a beating of the self... a killing of a part of what makes you who you are... which you have forgotten! ... A reflection of your own self hatred at your uselessness as a being... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">You beat up your very Gods when you beat up a woman, and then wonder why you've remained a perpetual slave to all types of masters... The black nation will not rise until the black man starts to respect and honour the black woman... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Direct your anger at those you fear and leave our bodies the fuck alone! We have our own battles to fight... This continuing abuse from those we should consider brothers and our protectors should not be one of them!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">...and to all you black men who do love, protect, honour and respect women... we appreciate you... but we also say... your silence is too loud! </span></div>Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-78681564860066073632011-12-23T04:22:00.001-08:002011-12-23T16:06:40.716-08:00Pandora's Box Pics - Red|Fire|Passion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnwJrXk7CXtcd75j8KxvN2lRdwENRvgtcwztP9IM5AHpVKP4HWMPAhmZncZQ79jjl0M7vAbEbgJx8PLoDN1Dybir3_WuWFE4hDeXah4iM1JVjiaRTSIMpcOVKgR-hDELCxywd6uvJT55yT/s1600/PB2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnwJrXk7CXtcd75j8KxvN2lRdwENRvgtcwztP9IM5AHpVKP4HWMPAhmZncZQ79jjl0M7vAbEbgJx8PLoDN1Dybir3_WuWFE4hDeXah4iM1JVjiaRTSIMpcOVKgR-hDELCxywd6uvJT55yT/s320/PB2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULWTbVJLmx8VVlfR9BwjfTgqSqvVDHFGxhVwxGFCbuC4OhzRDLiFGwg-lcBwafh8rdgjp0kZ2CI4T_m3p2F4aisuyXgunPHNiP_3n38Zc-kCeFspTpaLAJ9c3k70TAEYLtqtk5n-5Pss6/s1600/PB40.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULWTbVJLmx8VVlfR9BwjfTgqSqvVDHFGxhVwxGFCbuC4OhzRDLiFGwg-lcBwafh8rdgjp0kZ2CI4T_m3p2F4aisuyXgunPHNiP_3n38Zc-kCeFspTpaLAJ9c3k70TAEYLtqtk5n-5Pss6/s320/PB40.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267024864226556857.post-57435883139485305562011-12-23T03:31:00.000-08:002011-12-24T04:46:02.993-08:00Pandora's Box - InCelebration|OfWomanhood<div style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqrcfizBrq0og6qnJUKUDATaP_vGdiFOEIUca_x8-dTNhI8wDZLlDl0kLV3HhBT3Gd25NR0QuE4q6FVTSS0G02ligbVIg7JlZXBJaF2J_PvEi7d3d4mmWFOnOFDXYmnpdvznw6eoneHb2/s1600/Pandorasfinal.jpg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqrcfizBrq0og6qnJUKUDATaP_vGdiFOEIUca_x8-dTNhI8wDZLlDl0kLV3HhBT3Gd25NR0QuE4q6FVTSS0G02ligbVIg7JlZXBJaF2J_PvEi7d3d4mmWFOnOFDXYmnpdvznw6eoneHb2/s320/Pandorasfinal.jpg.png" width="219" /></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">not wanting to spoil an increasingly promising night we let them stay, the male folk that happened to have been at the venue before we started… it was not their fault that the owners of ragazzi had double-booked the venue that night.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">and so the rose petals were thrown on the staircase leading up to pandora's box… where women from all walks of life… the straights, bendy, queens and dykes... came together to party in what was to be a memorable night…</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">cross colours… a soul, funk & jazz dj started the proceedings off with some sexy & easy-vibes… we were still getting our drinks on… still going through the organisers jitters of 'where-are-these-women-will-they-come' moments…</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">they came… the women… they came in dribs and drabs until in the end there were enough of us to fill the venue… way past our 3rd and 4th drinks… taking advantage of the R12 tequillas and R5 shooters until we were comfortable with each other… and with the few men who to their credit respected the space. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">and then gears changed as the sassy IrmaG… with her specs on and her sister carefully watching… skilfully took us from loungey to dancey, screamy and then to the hlokolozing stages… </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">a party this december is not a party until you spot a hlokoloza… i must admit ke shapile one or two moves but it was a lady in a short summer dress with red lips and red nails who properly marked the climax of the party when she hlokolozad on the floor! a woman having a blast among other women… and as we caught our breaths on the balcony… listening to pandora dominating the sounds of lower long street in the early hours of the morning she whispered in my ear with a tipsy giggle… "i have never danced so much before!"…</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">i smiled… as at the same time from the corner of my eye i noticed a friend approach with the same satisfied, danced out smile that was plastered on most of our faces… and when she said… "freedom!"… i knew pandora had achieved her mission... a space has been created in cape town's monthly nightlife events for women to get together and have a friggin' blast! … we can't wait for the next one! </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">enjoy the pics that captured some moments from that evening… taken by the talented zanele muholi… </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #666666;">xx</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div>Jacqui ThePoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04358940569592407460noreply@blogger.com0