ARCHIVES: PARTY OR PROTEST?: Inclusivity debate still ruffling South African Pride’s ‘elite’ feather boas
‘I think we never really took to heart what happened in 2012… when the One in Nine Campaign was essentially putting their bodies on the line,” says Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, a well-known South African social justice activist. “You thought there would’ve been a shift to think politically about what Pride looks like.”
“Every Pride we write the same things, we tell the same stories, it’s almost like desktop research at this point in terms of what the issues are,” says Thozama Njobe, a queer rights activist and member of the Triangle Project, an NGO challenging homophobia, transphobia and intersexphobia.For Njobe, the issue of Pride is that it is facing a crisis of identity.
This comment highlights the crux of the controversy that surrounds Pride across the nation, which is that it often caters to an affluent faction of the queer community. Part of addressing these seemingly commonplace issues is structurally re-evaluating how Pride is organised, according to Njobe.
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