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Tiffany Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi are the powerful pair behind HOLAAfrica, an online Pan African queer womanist community dealing with sexuality and all things woman. Together they lead us on an exploration of the rich African historical accounts of sexualities which are alive in folklore, song, markings, naming systems and more.
Kagure Mugo is the intoxicatingly scary gatekeeper of HOLAAfrica, an online Pan African queer womanist community dealing with sexuality and all things woman. and a Youth Fellow for the Open Society Foundation. She is also a writer, digital and social media consultant and freelance journalist who tackles sex, politics and other less interesting topics. During weekends she is a wine bar philosopher and polymath for no pay.
Siphumeze Khundayi is a multi-disciplinary freelance performer and photographer who these mediums as a means of activism, focusing particularly on issues of identity which was informed by her Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies and Drama and her Honours degree in Gender and Transformation (UCT). This links to the work she does as Artistic Director of HOLAAfrica, a web based platform raise awareness surrounding issues of African female sexuality.
She currently forms part of Drama4Life Playback Theatre Company; has had performances in Artscape Women’s Festival, Drama 4 Life, GIPCA Live Art and Cape Town Fringe, Infecting the City, and Vrystaat Kunstefees.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx