Dirty Thirty

In this issue of The GALA Times we go back to the late 1980s, a time of conflict, uprising and hope. [...] Also, there is still a large portion of our population without access to the internet. [...] The bright side of our collective trauma was supposed to be the lessons we learnt from that time. [...] And yet, the girls of SistaazHood are sassy and amazing when they have access to wigs, clothes and a bathroom and mirror. [...] That’s when we started to have the likes of Siphelele and Lebo. [...] You find that one does not want to do the dishes and is be- having like the man of the house, and au- tomatically she’s a girl. [...] When it’s like that, you have to investigate and find out where is the problem. [...] K: Most of the time we struggle to create distance between our work and how we live. [...] I want the next generation to inherit a world where they can exist boldly and unapologetically, free from the shackles of identity negotiation and racial sanitisation. [...] Sadness at leaving behind the work and the people who have meant so much to me, sadness at saying goodbye to a chapter of my life that has been so defining.