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  • Love in revolution

    Love in revolution

    Love does not exist in a vacuum. In post-Apartheid South Africa, the tensions between radical solidarity and quiet diligency stand to rupture even the purest human connections. 

  • Decolonising Desire: The Politics of Love

    Decolonising Desire: The Politics of Love

    Dalia Gebrial examines the colonial scripts that encode people in and out of the possibility of love. Embedded within the constituent discourses of love – of desirability, emotional labour, support and commitment – are codes of social value assigned to certain bodies; of who is worthy of love’s work. The labour of decolonising these representative paradigms is structural, and involves addressing their material histories.