Rethinking the boundaries of blackness
South Africa’s visual culture reveals that its racial categories were never fixed, while the history of indenture complicates the terms of solidarity and exclusion.
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Youlendree Appasamy
Youlendree Appasamy is a feminist free radical based in Johannesburg, South Africa and works broadly in communications work.
You came here on a fucking boat
Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?
A compassionate take on an invisible struggle
A new film by South African director Nomawonga Khumalo represents the contradictions and nuances of black women’s interior lives.
The afterlives of indenture
South Africa’s history of indentured labor leaves behind a legacy of violence against women among the country’s South Asian population.