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SUMMARY:Pride and Letters - Queer Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\n\n\n\nDear Africa\n\n\nOn 25, 27 February and 1 March 2019, the Queer S
 pace Collective, University of Pretoria, will be hosting the Pride and Lett
 ers Queer Literary Festival. Pride and Letters forms part of the Advanced H
 uman Rights Course on Sexual Minority Rights organised by the Centre for Hu
 man Rights. Pride and Letters will specifically address three themes Queer 
 Exploration, Resistance and Celebration. The Queer Space Collective is
  a project run collaboratively by the Centre for Human Rights and Centre fo
 r Sexualities AIDS and Gender, both at University of Pretoria with the&nbsp
 ;vision to make the University of Pretoria more inclusive of queer expressi
 on and identities through the use of creative writing and expression.\n\n\n
 Download this Invitation\n\nPlease click here to RSVP\n\n\nSpaces are limit
 ed. RSVP deadline is 20 February 2019.\nQueer exploration\n\n\nDate: Monday
  25 February 2019\nTime: 08:00 - 17:30\nVenue: Function Hall, SRC Chambers,
  University of Pretoria\n\n\nThis will address sub-themes such as coming ou
 t stories; stories about labels adopted and rejected; stories about playing
  with borders, binaries and boxes; first times and later times (queerness a
 nd ageing); journeys of self-discovery; queerness in schools and places of 
 learning; journeys of transition and journeys of staying; queerness and soc
 ial media; queerness and porn. \nQueer resistance\n\nDate: Wednesday 2
 7 February 2019\nTime: 08:00 - 16:45\nVenue: Function Hall, SRC Chambers, U
 niversity of Pretoria\n\n\nThis will address sub-themes such as the African
 ness of queerness; underground queer cultures; archival findings; histories
  of African queernesses; queer marriages of convenience under a blanket of 
 compulsory heterosexuality; indigenous queer expressions; Pride as protest;
  staying at home in spite of repression; leaving home because of repression
 ; staying single; faith and sexuality; faith and gender; staying married in
  spite of queerness; gender non-conforming lives and spaces; polyamorous re
 lationships; speaking truth to power. \nQueer celebration\n\nDate: Fri
 day 1 March 2019\nTime: 17:00 - 22:00\nVenue: Function Hall, SRC Chambers, 
 University of Pretoria\nDress code: Mask + traditional attire \n\n\nTh
 is evening the masks you are presented with on arrival, are a symbol of unk
 nown and unnamed sexualities and genders on the African continent. These ma
 sks are also a metaphor for the anonymity of persons and stories repressed 
 on account of non-heteronormativity. These stories surround us and are deep
 ly connected to us. We will share them on Friday. The traditional attire se
 rves as an anchor that steeps diversity in our indigenous identities. This 
 evening will also address finding love; finding community; finding good sex
 ; finding happiness; love under repression; finding meaning and legitimacy 
 in family, culture, belief, purpose, children; Pride as a celebration; quee
 r art(s); queer humanity and grace. \nGuest Speakers\n - Dr Anastacia 
 Tompson\nMedical doctor and author\n - Mmeyi Mosehla\nActor\n - Jessica Lyn
 n\nKinsey Institute Global Ambassador\n - Ditshego Ditshego\nHead of News/D
 rive-Time Host, GAY SA radio\n - Justice Edwin Cameron\nJustice of the Cons
 titutional Court of South Africa\n - Batana Vundla\nCo-producer of Inxeba\n
  - Marc Epprecht\nProfessor, Department of Global Development, Queen’s Univ
 ersity\n - Keval Harie\nDirector of the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action\n 
 - Siya Khumalo\nAuthor\n - Teboho Klaas\nReligion Programme Officer RS
 VP\n\nPride and Letters is a three-day event aimed at promoting queer expre
 ssion through storytelling and creative expression. \n\n\nPlease click
  here to RSVP\n\n\nSpaces are limited. RSVP deadline is 20 February 2019.\n
 Contact Information\n\nEnquiries: david.ikpo@up.ac.za | pierre.brouard@up.a
 c.za\n
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg;VALUE=DATE:20190302
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