"We are more than these bodies that live in patriarchal societies that have been affected by our histories in our past."

"It’s important to have a dialogue about the things that are plaguing us, or disturbing our peace and our freedom"

"I’d like to believe that no matter what period I was born into, my writing or poetry would still have been my chosen …"

"I think that at the heart of activism is dialogue"

"I think that that’s the beauty and power of poetry – it cuts through the bullsh*t – it gets people to talk instantly …"

"One of the conundrums I was fiddling with was that my body and who I am is not a neutral space"

"he experience of being Black, queer and erased, from the archive, from politics, isn’t a singular story. It is not ju…"

"I live in a country where the arts are extremely underfunded"

"The narrative is that there is a head of the house, and there is a lot of silencing that comes with that"

"I feel as a Black queer woman in South Africa, I’m confronted with a lot of those issues that are rooted in capitalis…"