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To mark IWD, we’re publishing this poem from a new collection by Sheree Mack called skinshame,<\/strong> to be published shortly by Culture Matters<\/strong>.\u2018We\u2019ll show you you\u2019re a woman\u2019 was the title of a report compiled by Human Rights Watch into the violence and discrimination experienced by black lesbians and transgender men in South Africa. <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018We’ll Show You You’re a Woman\u2019<\/strong><\/span> The minute you see likeness is when you realise that no matter what you’re going through in your life, you are not alone<\/em> a) On the outskirts of Johannesburg, she is finally cured.<\/p>\n b) The Namaqualand daisy is in flashy orange bloom.<\/p>\n c) They say Satan has a hold on her. She is a demon.<\/p>\n d) I am afraid to be myself.<\/p>\n e) In a park, on a moonless night, f) The township always smells of Omo washing powder, g) My mother says I must take a boyfriend. h) No way a finger or tongue can satisfy you, he says. i) They find her naked body in a creek, j) No one is saying anything. No one has been caught.<\/p>\n k) I sense the guys in my neighbourhood are planning something. They cannot accept me choosing a woman. My day will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To mark IWD, we’re publishing this poem from a new collection by Sheree Mack called skinshame, to be published shortly by Culture Matters.\u2018We\u2019ll show you you\u2019re a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":12539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
in memory of Eudy Simelane<\/em><\/p>\n
– Zanele Muholi<\/p>\n
they each take their turn to correct her.<\/p>\n
even when we have no water.<\/p>\n
She invites the Pastor into our home to convert me.<\/p>\n
You need one of these to sort you out, he says
as he pulls down his pants.<\/p>\n
stabbed 28 times, including the soles of her feet.<\/p>\n