“I appreciate your note on the centrality of bodily presence and situated knowledge, which is key to the political, poetic, affective and conceptual impetus of the work, as it calls us into a different, more relational aesthetic encounter. It is, however, important to recall that not all “bodies” are equal, or equally “believable”, and do not enter into political representation on commensurate terms. An (anti-black/brown/poor/femme) index of differentially valued life continues to sustain an inequitable regime of representation, one in which white heteronormativity reads (and reads well) whilst the “affectable others” (to cite Denise Ferreira da Silva) do not.”
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THIS SONG IS FOR …
Nondumiso Msimanga
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Braids version, original by Queen)
Performed by Nonku Phiri & Dion Monti
“I tried to kill myself.
I still want to kill myself.
I have to fight to not want to kill myself.
I don’t want to just die.
I’m a fighter and everyday I’m fighting for my life;
fighting for it to matter.
Here’s to the good fight!”