Women’s Month exhibition shines spotlight on black transgender women
The exhibition will be open to the public and they will have insightful conversations by black transgender women from all walks of life.
To commemorate Women’s Month in South Africa, an exhibition titled Layers of a Black Transgender Woman presented and curated by transgender activist Yaya Mavundla is underway.
The exhibition opened on August 14 at Constitution Hill’s Women’s Jail.
The exhibition supported by Constitution Hill, Access Chapter 2 and Ingram’s is set to create a conversation of inclusivity, showcasing different layers of women, while stimulating a conversation of gender politics and identity. It will also help redefine being a woman and validate transgender women as women in a form of art on their own terms.
This groundbreaking exhibition features black transgender women who are in the media and in the forefront of transgender visibility in South Africa.
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The three women are The Way Ngingakhona reality star Tholang Motshumi, Miss South Africa top 30 finalist Lehlogonolo Machaba and Mzansi Magic’s Becoming Reality TV Star/award-winning transgender activist Yaya Mavundla.
Jay Chiumia, media officer, said Mavundla collaborated with South African photographer Terra Dick who captured the three women on their own terms and a Nigerian illustrator Chukwudi Udoye who was billed to interpret the images for this groundbreaking exhibition.
“The overall exhibition consists of 12 images with original images by Terra exhibited alongside the interpreted version by Chukwudi.”
The exhibition will be open to the public and they will have insightful conversations by black transgender women from all walks of life to enrich the diversity of black women, celebrating their differences as women and sharing their personal journey.
“My agenda is to address issues of black transgender women in SA and create space for inclusion,” said Mavundla.
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