OMPHEMETSE MANANA RE-PRESENTS: Life after university + privilege... 

IT IS ALMOST A FAMILLY AFFAIRS TING! 

K sit and chats with a good friend, Omphemetse aka OMP Manana! They check in with each other, chat life after university and the ups and downs that come with not being a student anymore...basically being a newly "ordained" adult with monetary responsibility and such. They also get into representing life from a privileged point of view and a non-privileged point of view.

MERCY THOKOZANE MINAH RE-PRESENTS: A freedom too strange to conquer 

Mercy Thokozane Minah is a queer, non-binary multi-disciplinary artist. They live in South Africa and have created work across visual, literary and performance-related mediums. Their short stories have appeared in anthologies such as the Lambda-award-winning Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinities, Exhale: Queer African Erotic Fiction and the AZE Journal: Asexuality Zine. They self-published an anthology of South African based horror stories titled, 4. They have written non-fiction for Writing the Walls Down and Brain Mill Press. They are currently studying toward a degree in Theatre and Performance at the University of the Witwatersrand where they plan to stage a play written by them titled Imigqomo Yase Gomorrah. Mercy has also created 8 series of original digital oil paintings, namely Regular (featuring the sub-series Partnered and Solo), Black Sofa, Together, Flower Bois, Room 204, Eaters, Heat, and Queer Festive Season.  

They have also created adaptative series based on the Beyoncé Knowles-Carter musical, Black is King and 2020’s iteration of Blacktober. Mercy’s digital oil paintings have been commissioned for promotional purposes by the Exist Loudly campaign, as well as Reclaiming Ugly’s Black Healing October. 

Regarding the purpose of their work Mercy states:

"I have a very simple purpose for the things I make: studying and conveying the intricacies of Black, Queer and Trans intimacies. I believe where we rest in our most intimate moments, whether these are moments of interpersonal dysfunction or tenderness, is deeply sacred. And storytelling through art offers ample opportunity to venerate that sacred space. Art also allows us the room to cultivate affirmation and perhaps sometimes even healing for the ways we navigate intimacy. My work seeks to explore these avenues of veneration, affirmation, and the facilitation of prospective healing as expansively as possible." 

Connect and visit Mercy's online platforms below: 

Website: mercythokozaneminah.yolasite.com

Instagram: iamafreedom 

CHANTEL BIYELA RE-PRESENTS: intentionally being 'That Jesus Girl' and being light 

K sits down with Chantel Biyela, and they chat about being a light. Chantel is that Jesus girl who graduated in and loves film and writing. She is also a YouTuber. We chat about her journey of becoming intentional about Jesus and implementing a new lifestyle. We talk friendship and having to let go of old habits. 

Check out Chantel's platforms: 

Instagram: @chantimwa21

YouTube: Chantel Biyela

K RE-PRESENTS: On being myself and learning who that is...

On this solo episode, K chats about the question of 'who am i' and how she is constantly becoming. She incomprehensibly rambles about learning who we are, how we relate to our physical and non-physical space. Our experiences and so much more.

This is a very weird episode, but thank you for coming and listening. Let us be.

In our being, let us be the kindest and peaceful beings to each other.

Follow us on Instagram and let us know what you think about about this or the previous episodes.  Subscribe to the podcast and be with us on this journey yo.

IG: representpod

Tumi Mampane is a Black feminist scholar and writer interested in Township Femininities. 

K and Tumi chat and explore feminism in the pentecostal church, performative gender roles, patriarchy and so much more. They also go on and talk about Black women and women, their space and place in society. 

#representpod #pilotepisode00: Welcome to re-present, a podcast with K.

K introduces herself and the incomprehensible things that go through her head that led to her wanting to start recording conversations with herself and other amazing people and sharing that with the world - scary stuff, friends! She promises a story that she forgets to tell throughout the rambling, lol. 

To make up for this, it's best you check out episode 01!!

Nothende Olive Madumo, now going by Blak Olive chats to K about being more than one thing. About allowing her curiosity about nature to lead her creativity in music, hair products and more.

Find out more about Blak Olive and what she does:

IG: @yum.me_naturals