Dr. Bev Ditsie on The Jazz Standard with Brenda Sisane
Dr Bev Palesa Ditsie is a South African activist, filmmaker, writer and cultural worker whose work has connected gender, sexuality, race, memory and human rights. They were a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand, or GLOW, which organised South Africa’s first Pride march in 1990. In 1995, Ditsie became the first African lesbian to address the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, where they called for the recognition of discrimination based on sexual orientation as a human-rights violation. Ditsie’s film work includes Simon & I, a…
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