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Classism & desirability politics operate in friendships. Friends rank each other, we all do. People rate your looks, intelligence, wealth— then decide where to place you in their friendship hierarchy.

A Venda woman with no hair just won Miss SA (she’s the first Venda winner), from a tribe that experiences the most tribalism in SA & is deemed to be

Venda and Tsonga people (from Limpopo) have South Africans of many tribes meting out myriad violence to us. We are at the bottom of the totem pole, with harmful discourses

If Trump hires black people, queers and women on his campaign team and they do an amazing job at getting him re-elected, are we allowed to still criticize Trump or

Someone with the range must unpack how our beloved queen Beyoncé is reducing blackness and Africanness to aesthetics and the western imaginations of our existence. They must also speak about

Imagine being a Professor and a Top Scientist with a PhD in Physics and a journalist refers to you on a first name basis like you are mates. I would