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SUMMARY:For the Gays... We had Jazz: Making New Worlds with the Kewpie Phot
 ographic Collection
DESCRIPTION:\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nIn apartheid South Africa\, a group of self-desc
 ribed gays and girls lived and worked as hairdressers and on-stage perform
 ers in Cape Town’s bustling and multicultural District Six. By the early
  1980s\, they were among the 60\,000 residents who had been forcibly displ
 aced\, on the basis of their legal classification as “coloured\,” whil
 e the built landscape was almost completely demolished.\n\nWith reference 
 to a unique archival resource known as the Kewpie Photographic Collection\
 , this public lecture will tell an as-yet unexplored part of this story: t
 he central role that gays and girls played\, during the 1960s\, in the flo
 urishing of the defiant musical style and movement that would later come t
 o be marketed as Cape Jazz.\n\nRereading the gays and girls of District Si
 x as part of a history of jazz\, and vice versa\, suggests new ways of thi
 nking with photography in terms of syncopation and swing. It illustrates h
 ow disenfranchised groups have collaborated to build new possible worlds i
 n which their lives could be more liveable—and suggests how those of us 
 engaging with the materials they produced could better honour this worldma
 king work.\n\n* This event will be both in-person and live streamed. A lin
 k to the live stream will be sent to attendees by email closer to the date
  of the event.\n\nRegister on Eventbrite.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nRuth Ram
 sden-Karelse is the Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellow at the University
  of Toronto’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, an Associate 
 of the Stuart Hall Foundation\, and an organising member of the queer Sout
 h African collective Salon Kewpie. She is currently completing her first m
 onograph\, about queer of colour worldmaking in apartheid South Africa\, t
 itled Gays and Girls Make Worlds. Her writing has appeared in publications
  including GLQ and Gender\, Place &amp\; Culture.
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