Talk to the table."-Chanel telling everyone to speak lower. #madeup #idiom #SouthAfrican

The bottom line is we need to be led, and until we see that happening in politics, we [the ordinary everyday citizens] need to keep showing up & serving & volunteering & donating & leading in our spaces and families and communities. That is the other way this country can change!

God knew what He was doing when he said that the church can judge the church. We can't put the burden of justice and advocacy on the feet of unChristian activists. We must do the work.

Just like men should be responsible for teaching and calling out other men, so should the church, so should women, so should fellow citizens sit in a circle and face each other.

As South Africans need to call each other out on our xenophobic bullshit. As Christians we need to call each other out on our homophobic, entitled, judgmental, and oh the list. As woman we need to call each other out for perpetuating patriarchy.

Today I am grateful for having friends who are brave. I am blinded by the beauty. This is how love each other. So I pray I become brave. I pray that you are brave.

The reason I liked Tweeter was because I could see the lastest tweets. Period. From ALL the accounts I followed. Period. Now, I have to see tweets from the same five people. This is just sad 😭.

And why do I have to see what other people liked. Why can't I see content from the hundreds of accounts I choose to follow. Tweeter is making me sad today *sigh*

Wonderful news: PEN South Africa's Vice President Yewande Omotoso has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award for her beautiful novel An Unusual Grief. She was nominated by City of Cape Town Libraries Congratulations Yewande Omotoso! johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2023/01/31/the… via The JRB

Submit your unpublished short stories to the Time of the Writer competition. Stories should be 1500-2000 words in either English or isiZulu Deadline: 10 March 2023 Info: tow.ukzn.ac.za/02/2023/time-o…

Yoh! When you run out of friends because it's just you and your boo. Take my name off the list, unsubscribe. Thank you very much, but it's a no from us!

Power makes people abusive. And they think they are justified to exercise it over you. This is why it will always end with fire. Because they think they are justified to your love.

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“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” — Audre Lorde

“I do think it's wonderful, Susie, that our hearts don't break, every day,” — Emily Dickinson, from a correspondence with Susan Dickinson archive.emilydickinson.org/working/hl13.h…

When someone says they have capacity, only use a 20% of what they are offering. It's called people pleasing. Or well intentioned, but don't fully comprehending what they are offering and what the other person need. #helping #healing

Hi! I'm running the Joburg Underground Film Festival on 2,8, and 9 September. We've got some really exciting shorts lined up from SA and abroad. Get tickets here: fynn-studio.com/event-details/…

When people, especially children, show their boundaries, when they step back, a.k.a asking for space, when they say no, reward them. That is good behaviour. They are being brave & modelling a world which is safe. It's a honor when someone can feel safe enough to say no to you.