Zanele Muholi The Bronze Age

 

ZM: "It was the constant and nagging questions within myself like, “How many people like us are published, how many exhibitions about and by us do you see, how many of us do we see in influential spaces, how many of the books are written by us in our own voices, etc?” I wanted to make sure that we had access to those spaces that held power to influence and educate. I knew that I had to be the conduit to the change that I wanted to see. Documenting others as well as myself is not just a practice in archiving, but healing varied traumas as well. Seeing and being seen, turning the power of erasure on its head, is proving to be the therapy many Black queers did not know they needed. Presence and visibility are vital for a people to thrive at the very least."