Re-present: A podcast with K Kelebogile Leepile

K RE-PRESENTS: Four things I learned in 2020...
PHEEEEEEW!!
It's the last day of 2020, the last episode of @representpod in 2020!  In this solo episode, K looks back at the lessons that remained constant in 2020. Summarising them to four biggest lessons of 2020. These are:
1. Infinity; I am infinite
2. Letting go; the importance of
3. Grief; how to let grief be
4. Communication has always been key
With the pandemic, the national and global lockdowns, losing my grandmother, family, relationship and friendships... so many things that can happen any time/year, but with the world sort of on a stop, everything that happened was to somewhat an extreme. Every little thing was magnified and demanded time to be felt and seen for what it is.
I reflect on these four lessons and how they forced their way into my life. Its a funny, intimate and emotional episode.  Thank you guys so much for being on this journey with me. Happy New Year's Eve and Complements for the New Year!

JAMILA METEDAD RE-PRESENTS: Despite 2020, I want to stay alive...
K sits and chats to Jamila Metadad, an inclusive education advocate, mental health warrior, and all-around fluid and beautiful human. Jamila is the founder of BUILD-Education, an organisation that aims to build bridges and make education inclusive and accessible. 
They talk 2020, the goodness that came out of a heavy and deadly year. They get into some of their lessons learned in 2020, checking in with each other and get into the question of "how are you, really". 
They also dwell into the importance of being kind to yourself as a person, understanding and getting to know people for being people and not in relation to the roles they play into our lives.  This and so much more. 
Hope you enjoy this episode and let us know your thoughts by liking, commenting and sharing the episode and @representpod! Remember to tag us too!

OMPHEMETSE MANANA RE-PRESENTS: Life after university + privilege... 

IT IS ALMOST A FAMILLY AFFAIRS TING! 

K sit and chats with a good friend, Omphemetse aka OMP Manana! They check in with each other, chat life after university and the ups and downs that come with not being a student anymore...basically being a newly "ordained" adult with monetary responsibility and such. They also get into representing life from a privileged point of view and a non-privileged point of view.

The conversation is a little uncomfortable and takes too many detours, but is a conversation worth having.

Hope you guys enjoy it and will let us know how you find it.

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MERCY THOKOZANE MINAH RE-PRESENTS: A freedom too strange to conquer 

Mercy Thokozane Minah is a queer, non-binary multi-disciplinary artist. They live in South Africa and have created work across visual, literary and performance-related mediums. Their short stories have appeared in anthologies such as the Lambda-award-winning Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinities, Exhale: Queer African Erotic Fiction and the AZE Journal: Asexuality Zine. They self-published an anthology of South African based horror stories titled, 4. They have written non-fiction for Writing the Walls Down and Brain Mill Press. They are currently studying toward a degree in Theatre and Performance at the University of the Witwatersrand where they plan to stage a play written by them titled Imigqomo Yase Gomorrah. Mercy has also created 8 series of original digital oil paintings, namely Regular (featuring the sub-series Partnered and Solo), Black Sofa, Together, Flower Bois, Room 204, Eaters, Heat, and Queer Festive Season.  

They have also created adaptative series based on the Beyoncé Knowles-Carter musical, Black is King and 2020’s iteration of Blacktober. Mercy’s digital oil paintings have been commissioned for promotional purposes by the Exist Loudly campaign, as well as Reclaiming Ugly’s Black Healing October. 

Regarding the purpose of their work Mercy states:

"I have a very simple purpose for the things I make: studying and conveying the intricacies of Black, Queer and Trans intimacies. I believe where we rest in our most intimate moments, whether these are moments of interpersonal dysfunction or tenderness, is deeply sacred. And storytelling through art offers ample opportunity to venerate that sacred space. Art also allows us the room to cultivate affirmation and perhaps sometimes even healing for the ways we navigate intimacy. My work seeks to explore these avenues of veneration, affirmation, and the facilitation of prospective healing as expansively as possible." 



Connect and visit Mercy's online platforms below: 

Website: mercythokozaneminah.yolasite.com

Instagram: iamafreedom 

CHANTEL BIYELA RE-PRESENTS: intentionally being 'That Jesus Girl' and being light 

K sits down with Chantel Biyela, and they chat about being a light. Chantel is that Jesus girl who graduated in and loves film and writing. She is also a YouTuber. We chat about her journey of becoming intentional about Jesus and implementing a new lifestyle. We talk friendship and having to let go of old habits. 

Check out Chantel's platforms: 

Instagram: @chantimwa21


Facebook: Chantel Biyela



YouTube: Chantel Biyela

K RE-PRESENTS: On being myself and learning who that is...

On this solo episode, K chats about the question of 'who am i' and how she is constantly becoming. She incomprehensibly rambles about learning who we are, how we relate to our physical and non-physical space. Our experiences and so much more.

This is a very weird episode, but thank you for coming and listening. Let us be.

In our being, let us be the kindest and peaceful beings to each other.

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