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By Umlilo on October 15, 2018
By Umlilo and Leila Dee Dougan on 15 October 2018 in
AUDIO
For rapper Umlilo music is freedom and therapy at the same time. In his music he addresses issues of homophobia and bends the common images of gender. «Gender has always been something very natural to me to fuck with», he explains his approach.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Activism, Bedroom Producing, Cape Town, Class, Desire, DIY, Freedom, Gender, Queer, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Podcasts, South Africa, Township, Umlilo, Xhosa |
By Beatriz Hernández Caraveo on August 22, 2018
By Beatriz Hernández Caraveo on 22 August 2018 in
BLOG
Music scenes can serve as safe spaces for marginalized groups. In Mexico, reggaetón underground parties are an important home for the country’s LGBTIQA+ community to express their discontent against a sexist society and lack of female empowerment.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Beatriz Hernández Caraveo, body, Brun OG, Desire, empowerment, Gender, Gender Roles, intersectionality, La Gozadera, LGBTIQA, Mami Slut, Mexico, Mexico City, Perreo, Queer, Queer Culture, reggaeton, reggaeton underground, Resistance, Sex, T.Y., Tomasa del Real |
By Kalle Berggren on August 18, 2017
By Kalle Berggren on 18 August 2017 in
VIDEO
Silvana Imam is changing Sweden’s contemporary hip hop landscape. In this jj remix of her song «I.M.A.M.», classical hip hop video references are characteristically interchanged with images of political protests and LGBT Pride marches.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ayesha, Cleo, Desire, Elin Kastlander, feminism, Femtastic, Feven, Gender Roles, Gudrun Schyman, Heli, Hip Hop, I.M.A.M., jj, Kalle Berggren, Leila K, Lilla Namo, Linda Pira, Lithuania, Melinda Wrede, Mika Gustafson, Neneh Cherry, New Geographies, Olivia Kastebring, Pussy Riot, Queer, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, Silvana Imam, Simone de Beauvoir, Sweden, Syria, Transnationality, Valerie Solanas |
By B Camminga on January 11, 2017
By B Camminga on 11 January 2017 in
STORIES
In Post Apartheid South Africa a new generation of young artists are drawing on the country’s idiosyncratic past and its unsettled present. They express queer visions for the future. See Dope St Jude at the 8th Norient Musikfilm Festival 2017.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 8. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Aluta, Apartheid, B Camminga, Bill of Rights, body or presentation, Cairo, Chain Gang, communities, Congo, culture, Desire, Dope St Jude, Drag, Eve Sedgwick, Gay, Gayle, Gender, Hlasko, Keep in Touch, Lesbian, LGBTI, masculinity, post-apartheid, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Queer, Queer Culture, queer music, Race, Reciprocity, religion, Seismographic Sounds, sexuality, South Africa, Umlilo |
By B Camminga on October 24, 2016
By B Camminga on 24 October 2016 in
VIDEO
The video of «Magic Man» of the south african musician Umlilo questions issues of race and masculinity and speaks to the constant negotiation that is the suffocating entanglement of past and present South Africa.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Desire, Gender, Magic Man, masculinity, Queer, Queer Culture, Race, Rainbow Nation, Ritual, Seismographic Sounds, South Africa, Umlilo, Xhosa |
