Photographer and activist Zanele Muholi highlights the ruthless and often violent discrimination faced by black lesbians in South Africa. Through frank and intimate photographic portrayals including the scars of hate crimes, the bonds between lovers, and the life lines of women living in society's margins this compilation inspires a deeper understanding of blackness, the female form, skin tones, body types, and varying sexualities in a way that is unprecedented in South Africa.
Zanele Muholi is a photographer and the cofounder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women.
