Sometimes AIAC collaborator Nerina Penzhorn’s documentary, “Waited For,” about interracial adoptions in South Africa of mostly black children by a group of mainly white lesbian women, has been accepted to Frameline, considered the largest LGBT film festival in the country. According to Nerina, the film “… explores the ways in which these queer families challenge and are challenged by the traditional hierarchies of race and heterosexism that are still deeply entrenched in the South African psyche.”

Further Reading

And do not hinder them

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

The new antisemitism?

Stripped of its veneer of nuance, Noah Feldman’s essay in ‘Time’ is another attempt to silence opponents of the Israeli state by smearing them as anti-Jewish racists.