Zanele Muholi: Bathini

Zanele Muholi- Thursday, June 24th. 2021 at 8 PM ET- PRIDE MONTH CELEBRATION- A photographer and self-proclaimed visual activist, Zanele Muholi explores black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities and politics in contemporary South Africa. For her series “Faces and Phases” (2006-11), Muholi created more than 200 portraits of South Africa’s lesbian community. The images challenge the stigma surrounding gays and lesbians in South Africa, debunk the common rhetoric that homosexuality is un-African, and address the preponderance of hate crimes against homosexuals in her native country. This program originally aired in 2015. For more information, please visit https://stamps.umich.edu/events/zanele-muholi