I am a radical BLACK Queerist

I am a radical BLACK Queerist*: I only fight for black queers. Long have white queers used our bodies to get "rights" then ditch us. #NoMore

I am a radical BLACK Queerist: I only fight for black queers. Long have black cishets used our bodies in the "black" struggle & then kill us

I'm a radical BLACK Queerist: I only fight for black queers. Long have black heteros used our bodies for numbers in "black" struggle&hate us

I'm a radical BLACK Queerist: I only fight for POOR black queers. Long have other black queers, left us in the ghettoes because we're GHETTO

I'm a radical BLACK Queerist: I only fight for POOR black queers. Long have other cisgendered LGB+ people hated us for our hyperfemininity!

I'm a radical BLACK Queerist: 'cause I'm POOR, black, trans, queer, anti-normative, gay, from the Ghetto&am Ghetto, forgotten, hated, hunted

I am a Radical BLACK QUEERIST because I did not choose this and therefore I have no other option.

*Queerist: ghetto queer

Umbongo ngothando lwesini sinye

Gqaba gqaba!

Mandigqabazelise nje ngala magqabantshintshi

Ndithi alukho usana olungenanina

Mandigawule ndiwarhuqa, mawethu

Sizwe sakwantu, nina nimbal’ omdaka

Nzala kaNtu, ntsana zabantsundu

BaNguni sizukulwana saseAfrika

Ewe kaloku nini amaAfrika okwenene

Nangona umhlaba nawuhluthwayo

Mvaba ngemvaba zomzi waseAfrika

Sizukulwana sikaPhalo: maXhosa, MaGcaleka nani booRharhabe

BaThembu, BaThwa, maMpondo namaMpondomise

MaGqunukhwebe, MaMfengu, MaBhaca naMaBomvana,

MaHlubi, BaMbo, sizukulwana sikaSenzangakhona

NinabakaMoshoeshe, nanibakaMzilikazi

Nina nonke nisesinyini saseAfrika nasemntla-Afrika

Ndivumeleni ndityatyadule

Ndenjenje ukuzityand’ igila

Imbongi ayinatyala, ibhodla okuphakiweyo

Iphina na intaka exhwith’ uboya bamantshontsho wayo

Ithi yakha umzi?

Silwane sini esithi sivukele inzala yaso sithi silwa umzingeli?

Ke ..., nto enaniyibona phi le niyenzayo?

Masikizi mani laa nizimise ukuqhuba ngawo?

Nanikhe nayivaphi into yokubulala umntu ngenxa yothando?

Nithi ukuthanda isini esinye asisubo ubuAfrika

Kodwa ndiyabona ukubulula nokudlwengula bubo bona, andithi?

Xa iintombi zenu niziqwengwa okwexhalanga,

Nithi udyakalashe makathini?

Niyimele into yokuba luhlazo ukubona amanina embatha ngangubo nye

Nithi nidlwengula ezintsana ngenxa yokuthando isini esinye

Aniboni tu ukuzichana kwenu kubhontsi?

Ayaphi na amanina azokuzilela ooPhumeza Nkolonzi nooSihle Sikoji?

Isihlwele sona siyasiva isikhalo sabo oo Disebo Gift Makau

Khanimeni ndibuze: Aniyilahlanga indlela kodwa?

Nto naniyiva ngabani le yokungcungcuthekisana?

Hayini maAfrika ndiyanqanda,

Khaniyikhele umkhanyo noko le nto?

Nigrenyana nje, ningagqibani!

Kuya kuphela nini ukudlana izithende kulo umzi wamaAfrika?

Kuyakuphela nini ukunukana silusapho lwamaAfrika?

Lo wethu umzi nithi uyakuze ume kwisini na?

Ewe ukufa kusembizeni.

Kodwa umqomi wayo sanukuvuma ukuba ibenini!

Ezinye intlanga zenza intlekisa ngani

Ziyabizana zithi: bajongeni ooxam bayaphaxulana

Nanikhe nababona na abasemzini bezikhohlakalele iintsana zabo?

Ndiyanikhuza ngoba abaMhlophe bayagqumana umhlane

Babumbene okwedongwe, bekhusela iintsana zabo:

Ke nina noyiswa yintoni ukubambana noba anivisisani?

Olona tshaba nilubonayo, kukubona amadoda kumandlalo mnye na?

Lisebenzile iqhinga lomtyholi apha kuni.

Oyena mgqiba mzi nimvayo kukuthandana kwamadoda, andithi?

Iinkomo zobawo zamnkiswa kukubona amanina ethandana, kwisini?

Imihlaba yaxuthwa kuba kwabhentsiswa le nyewe, yaveziswa esihleni?
Ewe kaloku kwantlandlo le nto ibisenzeka
Qha into yokuba kungathethwa ngayo, ibe yimfihlo, ayiyisusi tu kwimbali

Yhe utshaba lunididile, luniphixanisile lanishuya niqwengana

Lona lizandla sizumsulwa, oko phezulu

Asilulo na oluzengodlame lanifundisa ukubulalana xa ningavumelananiyo?

Aniboni na ukuba sithelekisiwe omnye nomnye?

Bona bayabulalana na, khanizibuze?
UMelika uyamvukela uMyurophu?
Iintlanga ezihluthe ubutyebi bethu, ingaba ziyazingelana na?

Njengokuba nitshabalalisana; ningalibali ukuba bona bayakhana

Ngoku ke thina kutheni singenakusebenzisana?

Ukungaboni ngaso linye akutsho ukukhuphana iliso

Ndithetha bukhali ndenziwa yintlungu
Ndinitywatyusha nje ndenziwa kukunithanda
Ndiyanithanda maAfrika nonke niphele
Njalo ngokwahlukana kwenu, ningabasekhaya, eAfrika
Imbongi ayinatyala ibhodla ekuphakiweyo
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