DIFFICULT LOVE - Cineffable 2011

Zanele MUHOLI

Zanele Muholi is a visual activist born in Umlazi, Durban in 1972. Prior to her photographic journeys into black female sexualities and genders in Africa, Zanele worked tirelessly as a reporter and a lesbian/human rights activist with members in her community to highlight the many issues facing lesbian women living in South Africa today. In 2002, while reporting for "Behind the Mask", an online magazine on lesbian and gay issues in Africa, she co-founded the "Forum for the Empowerment of Women" (FEW), a black lesbian organization based in Johannesburg. After bearing witness to the victimization of many of her friends and community members for being gay, Zanele spent three years researching, recording, and documenting the stories of hate crimes in order to bring the issue of lesbophobic rape to public attention. FEW is today a thriving black lesbian empowerment organization.

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October 29 to November 2, 2011

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