[spectre] New podcast: FAKA alk about performing masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture in the 90s and racialised queer bodies

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast: Desire Marea and Fela Gucci (aka FAKA
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula>) **talk about performing
masculinity and self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South
African pop culture in the 90s, racialised queer bodies, music as a medium
and dealing with contradictions*

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula

Desire Marea and Fela Gucci are the duo behind FAKA
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/faka/capsula>, a cultural platform from the
heart of South Africa whose primary goal is to create alternative
representations of black queer identity. Given that the notion of gender is
heavily influenced by Western culture, FAKA defend that African identities
in general are queer, because they don't conform to the same patterns.

FAKA's artistic activism is modelled on the anti-apartheid cultural
movement, but also employs strategies from advertising and pop culture.
Although the duo work with all kinds of media (texts, photography,
performance...), they mainly use music, drawing on sources ranging from
queer hip hop (Mikky Blanco, Lelf, House of Ladosha...) to nineties South
African afropop (Branda Fassie, Boom Shaka...) and local genres such as
gqom.

Out of these influences, FAKA generate highly complex cultural products in
which voguing intersects South African cruising spots, reality shows,
gender theory, and gospel hymns. Aside from their capacity to absorb and
mix cultural codes from very different fields, FAKA manage to be combative
without sacrificing vulnerability in their fight for civil rights.

Desire Marea and Fela Gucci talk about performing masculinity and
self-policing, vulnerability, Siyakaka feminism, South African pop culture
in the 90s, racialised queer bodies, music as a medium and dealing with
contradictions.

*Timeline*
*03:30* Queer Africa
*04:27* Introductions
*10:35* Family matters
*14:13* Missions
*17:11* Homophobia and misogyny in South Africa
*21:19* Influences
*24:18* Language matters
*25:31* Kwaito
*27:55* Uyang'khumbula
*29:23* South African pop culture in the 90s
*31:07* Brenda Fassie
*31:42* Gqom
*36:40* The Factory
*44:05* The body as a medium
*49:36* Contradictions

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