This guy is a longtime subscriber. What confuses you?
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 06:14 <nicholas.piet33@gmail.com wrote:
quoted 76 lines I was extremely confused when I saw this in my inbox.
> I was extremely confused when I saw this in my inbox.
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> Hm
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> - Nick
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> *From:* Radio Web MACBA <rwm2008@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2018 21:25
> *To:* idm list <idm@hyperreal.org>
> *Subject:* New podcast: FAKA alk about performing masculinity and
> self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture
> in the 90s and racialised queer bodies
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> *New podcast: Desire Marea and Fela Gucci (aka FAKA
> <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula>) **talk about performing
> masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South
> African pop culture in the 90s, racialised queer bodies, music as a medium
> and dealing with contradictions*
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> Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula
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> Desire Marea and Fela Gucci are the duo behind FAKA
> <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula>, a cultural platform from
> the heart of South Africa whose primary goal is to create alternative
> representations of black queer identity. Given that the notion of gender is
> heavily influenced by Western culture, FAKA defend that African identities
> in general are queer, because they don't conform to the same patterns.
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> FAKA's artistic activism is modelled on the anti-apartheid cultural
> movement, but also employs strategies from advertising and pop culture.
> Although the duo work with all kinds of media (texts, photography,
> performance...), they mainly use music, drawing on sources ranging from
> queer hip hop (Mikky Blanco, Lelf, House of Ladosha...) to nineties South
> African afropop (Branda Fassie, Boom Shaka...) and local genres such as
> gqom.
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> Out of these influences, FAKA generate highly complex cultural products in
> which voguing intersects South African cruising spots, reality shows,
> gender theory, and gospel hymns. Aside from their capacity to absorb and
> mix cultural codes from very different fields, FAKA manage to be combative
> without sacrificing vulnerability in their fight for civil rights.
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> Desire Marea and Fela Gucci talk about performing masculinity and
> self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture
> in the 90s, racialised queer bodies, music as a medium and dealing with
> contradictions.
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> *Timeline*
> *03:30* Queer Africa
> *04:27* Introductions
> *10:35* Family matters
> *14:13* Missions
> *17:11* Homophobia and misogyny in South Africa
> *21:19* Influences
> *24:18* Language matters
> *25:31* Kwaito
> *27:55* Uyang'khumbula
> *29:23* South African pop culture in the 90s
> *31:07* Brenda Fassie
> *31:42* Gqom
> *36:40* The Factory
> *44:05* The body as a medium
> *49:36* Contradictions
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> E/N/J/O/Y
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