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.
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.
Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.
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.
On Valentine's Day, Emma Dowling makes a powerful case for thinking about the structure of social relationships rather than simply 'the one'.