Yaya Mavundla Is Making SA Pride Month Extra Memorable This Year
Yaya Mavundla is about to make Pride Month extra memorable this October. The multi-award-winning transgender activist and reality TV star is partnering with Constitution Hill to launch a PRIDE catalogue that will commemorate 31 Years of LGBTIQ+ PRIDE in South Africa!
The 31 Years of PRIDE Catalogue consist of 31 voices from the members of the LGBTIQ+ community and allies. Some of the voices include reigning Miss South Africa Shudu Musida, Gay rights activist and former Justice of the Constitutional Court Edwin Cameron and playwright and poet, Napo Masheane.
“Besides this being a very important archive of our history published in a government platform, this is to make a statement, to say government can’t come back and say they are not aware of our issues as the LGBTIQ+ community. Also, there have been many politics around PRIDE in South Africa, which made many people find themselves losing a sense of belonging and togetherness, I wanted different voices in one catalogue that will make us realize we might have different stories and experiences but we are one and to say spaces like Constitution Hill belongs to us too as the LGBTIQ+ community, “ says Yaya, who recently launched her exhibition of Layers of a Black Transgender Woman at Constitution Hill.
“Members of the queer community fought over decades for their right to express their love and humanity. Political activists, straight and queer, struggled together, not always without discomfort, to create a world where difference would not only be tolerated but welcomed,” she continues.
For the duration of PRIDE month, from the 1st of October each day Constitution Hill will publish a different story on www.constitutionhill.org.za until the 31st of October.
