Jess Basson

Dear South Africa… a letter from Jess Basson

inspire-ations, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people

Dear South Africa… a letter from Jess Basson

Dear South Africa, Actually, dear white South Africans. My peeps. I love you but we can't have another year like 2017. Seriously. I've taken the liberty of writing a few New Year's Resolutions for us. I reckon we can do it. Learn an African language. Pay your domestic worker a living wage and stop calling her "Irene". Her name is Thobeka. Only read novels written by African authors. Get on Black Twitter. Look at black [...]

By brettfish|2018-01-18T06:24:39+02:00January 18th, 2018|inspire-ations, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|1 Comment

Moving like Beyonce’: a guest post by Jess Basson

challenging thorts, inspire-ations, race vibes, thorts of other people

Moving like Beyonce’: a guest post by Jess Basson

My friend Jess shared this with me a while back and in all the sickness and busyness and awayness it kinda got lost for a bit, but i found it again and there is some super helpful stuff in here: When Beyonce’ dropped her single, Formation, off her new album Lemonade, I sat in a coffee shop and cried while watching it on repeat. Not just because I know I’ll never have such good dance moves, [...]