Find New Words Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/find-new-words/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:46:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png Find New Words Archives - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/tag/find-new-words/ 32 32 Homophobic washing powder ad shown on SABC and almost no one complained https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/12/homophobic-washing-powder-ad-shown-on-sabc-and-almost-no-one-complained/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/12/homophobic-washing-powder-ad-shown-on-sabc-and-almost-no-one-complained/#respond Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:40:50 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=89370 A homophobic fake washing powder ad was screened on SABC this week as a test to see how South Africans would respond to the use of the word "istabane" -  and we failed miserably.

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]]> https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/10/12/homophobic-washing-powder-ad-shown-on-sabc-and-almost-no-one-complained/feed/ 0 Finding new affirming LGBTIQ+ words in indigenous languages https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/29/finding-new-lgbt-words-in-indigenous-languages/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2018/06/29/finding-new-lgbt-words-in-indigenous-languages/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:26:16 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=84947 Words have immense power. Every day, the terminology we use defines how we view the world and influences our behaviour in it. That’s problematic when the terms that refer to gender identities and sexual orientations are so often derogatory and harmful. They not only reflect our society but also perpetuate the cycle of bias and […]

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