South African artist and activisto Zanele Muholi and Brooklyn-based poet and activist Stacey Ann Chin discuss Muholi’s photography and documentary films produced with and about black lesbians. Muholi urges all black queer and trans persons to dcument, revisualize, and rewrite their own her/histories for posterity, but most of all to be included and counted in national historical archives in order to educate current and future generations of their existence and resistance. Chin pulls from her Jamaican and American experiences in considering Muholi’s work, proposing that LGBTQ struggles across artificial global divides, constructed classes, and related barriers are at once completely different, and achingly the same. Includes a preview of the exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.
