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Youspentyour wholelifefighting forBlackpeople wantedtocome backhomeand
believetheyknow speak,live,love, dance,singand evengrieve.They havenoidea.
Tobehatedby theapartheid governmentis peopleandto beadoredby
EsihleLupindoisa2020Mail& Guardiantop200youngSouth Africansand a2021Fulbright scholarand aPhD studentin Heholdsamastersdegreewith DistinctioninSociologyforhis worktitled“BlackQueerSpace Making and The Unfinished Business of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of SouthAfrica”whicharguesthat one ofthe primary moments thatmarkednon-belongingfor Black Queers is the
non-invitationtotheTruthand Reconciliation Commission (TRC)ofSouthAfrica,despite (Black) Queers having experienced structural and social forms of targeted discrimination based on HeispublishedintheNational Instituteofthehumanitiesand social sciences, Agenda feministacademicjournalandin other Southern African
