Just Like You!
A host of short intimate talks about spirituality and identity with people who stand proud in their skin. JUST LIKE YOU inspires a search for ancient and new vocabularies that move us away from sexualization and into divinity and personal freedoms The Mission of this podcast is to create a digital museum of trans voices from the African Continent; to unearth their magic and spirituality, highlight their stories so that Africa’s narrative gains new perspectives and knowledge of trans women pioneered by them. Lets talk through our path to self actualization
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Episodes
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
The body is a rich object for enquiry. Bodies feature in many of our everyday experiences. In this Episode Nceba Shai and I Zone in on the specificity of bodies in relation to aesthetic traditions and ideals and intimate human connections.
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
In this Episode we speak about the value of our names and how understanding the magic of our transness can help us overcome shame.
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
In this Episode we meet Maison Nyathi who shares the magic of her transness despite living in Zimbabwe, a country which criminalizes trans identities. If you are living under threats and hostile environments, don't despair there are millions of us #JustLikeYou
Producers Note by Thozama Busakwe
Being different means being exiled from society, I wanted to create a space where trans women can gather, speak and create new vocabularies.
. Language has a way of immortalizing and humanizing people –
The language used in Africa to define and describe queer people has always been extracted from pieces of literature that speak against our existence. This has been especially troubling to me because language is so powerful is responsible for the deaths of many people. Being born queer in Africa gives you one of two choices, hunt yourself or be hunted. Either way, you cannot escape the war. It is always at your door step. There are no choices. Even those who hide, have an arena waiting for them in the shadows.
JUST LIKE YOU is a collection of the debris and the left overs and remnants of this war on our bodies. It is both a memorial and a love letter to African queer bodies. These episodes encapsulate the experiences of queer people during a surge in Africa of anti-gay laws criminalizing the existence of queer bodies. These laws are designed to send a message to gender variant folk that they are unwanted. This podcast, immortalizes them, their experiences, spirituality, fears and love.
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“The thing about shame is that it eats at you until it fully consumes you. Then you cannot tell the difference between their shame and your own— between a body and an apology.”
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