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Celebrating justice: Women’s rights activists outside the Khayelitsha magistrate’s court in 2012 at the sentencing of Zoliswa Nkonyana’s killers. Four men were sentenced to 18 years in jail each for the February 2006 murder of the 19-year-old lesbian. (Shelley Christians/ Gallo Images/The Times)
AIDS DENIALISM

‘We only write about them when they are dead’: Hate killings of black lesbians in South Africa

In her book ‘Femicide in South Africa’, journalist and researcher Nechama Brodie examines the violent history the country’s black lesbians have endured

  • Nechama Brodie
10 min read
“I was closeted at the time, so I was hiding the abuse plus the relationship itself,” says a 29-year-old.
CARL COLLISON

The bruised silence of queer women

Mention intimate partner violence and everyone thinks about man-on-woman abuse — it’s time to rethink that

  • Carl Collison
6 min read