Poetry by Gabeba Baderoon
1. Contemporary Pastoral Don’t open the door to strangers.Never take the path through the woods or fields.Always walk in groups.Don’t…
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Painting By: Cynthia Nair
Cynthia Nair’s paintings draw critically on several aesthetic and cultural influences. One of these is the impressionist, Paul Gauguin, with…
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Painting By: Zulfa Abrahams
Zulfa Abrahams is an artists who has taught in the English, Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology Departments at the…
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Seeds from the Street to the Seas
“Reviving seeds as commons, through a telling of seeds as story, we move from seed as object to seed as…
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The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon
The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon by Coral Bijoux is an excerpt from the Dreams as R-evolution body of…
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Maize
The above artworks are reflections on my honours research on maize consumption. Maize and maize meal hold a deeply sentimental…
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My Tongue Softens On The Other Name
In my mother’s back yard washing snapsabove chillies and wild rosemary.Kapokbos, cottonwool bush, my tongue softenson the rosemary’s other name.Aubergine,…
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The Fish System
Step one: my father takes a piece of fish and hooks it on the line, feeds it to the sea…
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Hunger
So here’s the thing:Women don’t feel hungry. One hears, in fact,That among someThe culture of skipping tea and breakfast,And going…
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Mambhele’s Harvest
My grandmother was a guardian,tending a kingdom of cabbages.Leafy, layered planets in constant orbit emasimini.uMamBhele was a general, rearing battalion…
