This Cape Town trans woman is crowdfunding her gender affirming surgery

A 22-year-old transgender woman is asking members of the community to help make her gender affirming surgery a reality. Make-up artist Robyn Botha from Cape Town has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise R200,000 so that she’ll be able to feel like she’s physically “complete”. At birth, Botha was named Dewald and assigned “male” as […]

Exhibition: Celebrating visual activism

A group exhibition, initiated by Zanele Muholi, that celebrates the work of women activist photographers, is on this month in Johannesburg. The On Visual Activism exhibition features the works of young South African visual activists who have been working with the internationally acclaimed Muholi under the banner of the XP Project. The XP Project, which […]