It’s a weepy day as I speak to journalists about my new song KULUNGILE OUT THIS FRIDAY🌸 It’s a song about some of the traumas we face a kids, the things that hurt us well into adulthood. Maybe your father was never around,or someone died,or you were abused. KULUNGILE💓

coming into power in the US seems like an intellectual death of sorts

happy birthday to my one true love, my mommy and best friend. i love you more than nutella and taking naps. 48 has never looked so good sana, ingathi usena30 😂😘. @thandiswamazwai

Came back to Twirra for one day just to read this tweet. There are as many upstanding people as there are cowards. I am grateful when they speak up like this.

goodbye, Twitter! and thanks for all the fish.

but anyways let me get back to doing my gay things. Watching a drag show called Mea Culpa.

folks are responding to their experiences with toxic straight men in their lives when they focus on male privilege as a thing that renders gay men’s problems of a lower order. But they can’t hurt them, they can hurt us. 6/

It’s actually super violent because it makes it clear that some experiences and feelings are more important than others, even if we are doing social justice drag together. 5/

In my own relationships I have noticed a readiness to deploy black womanhood as a way of not actually understanding my gay ass experience. Instead of trying to understand my vulnerability folks get “male privilege” and “black woman” and come to certain conclusions. 4/

There is a certain romance with our victimhood that can really shut down empathy and compassion. A lot of the time people seem to be competing for the status of victim because it lends a moral authority and, frankly, the ability to pass on some of the pain we experience. 3/

As if manhood isn’t actually lethal to gay men. That whole part of things - of actually navigating a hostile manhood that straight women are happy to live in despite their friendships with us - is out the conversation. 2/

as a gay man, straight women will treat you like a woman - that is when we are doing care work alongside. But other times, straight women will treat you like a man - that’s when it is time to talk about womanhood as victimhood. Then the male privilege enters the chat. 1/

It’s always looked like what it is. Just that most of y’all were too cowardly to admit what you saw

I have been crying with joy at art lately and it’s gross. Last night it was worse because I had spilled droplets of wine onto the concrete floor in front of my seat. They continued to glisten after they dried, so they looked like fresh tears the *whole* performance. 🤮

“People have the power to redeem the work of fools” - Patti Smith

I’m finally ready to admit to myself that I will never eat magwinya unless I make magwinya.

if the whites who thump their chest about the racism of other whites actually took steps to understand how whiteness shapes their lives and makes it impossible to have compassion, that would be useful. This fake argument about who is most racist is indulgent and tedious. 2/

it’s always 👀 when white people do this symbolic aggression against whites who are (also) racist. Instead of trying to identify how they are similar with conservative cousins and trying to use that similarity to heal them, they do oneupmanship. Only helps them. Not me lol. 1/

Every accusation is a confession. When people Zionists talk about rape, they are just trying to get you in your feelings because they know that as a decent human, you will respond. They are not decent people.

LGBTQ (let’s get biryani tonight queen)