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Malebo Sephodi

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award winning author. recipient of the South African Literary Award for First Time Published Author.

Average rating: 3.96 · 135 ratings · 21 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Miss Behave

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“Listen, we've always been living through something. Some warmonger has always been waging a war somewhere. The thing is how close it feels to you today. If you get a little overwhelmed, visit your local library and spend some time with the archives. Look at the old photos, letters and stories. Go and speak to your elders. You'll find evidence of hope, joy, dancing and singing through the grief. It is exactly this joy that holds us as we show up for the difficult work that is world-making.”
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“Secretly, many people are stuck in decorated cages of labels. The need to belong to a society that determines how we show up is a powerful force. Many people are performing and editing themselves based on who's watching. I admire those who can show up fully themselves, unapologetically. There is a social cost to this. I live it daily, and I’m not even fully there yet.”
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“we are trying to fight a system while simultaneously navigating it, because it adapts so completely that we become unwilling participants, all in the name of survival. the guilt of that contradiction forms part of the snare. we can recognise being in the system without surrendering it.”
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Practicing Liberation by Tessa Hicks Peterson
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“Reinvent yourself over and over and over and over and over until you find home. There is no timeline for the soul.”
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“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...

No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders”
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“MoonChild be free.
Free from the tides of being boxed.
Free from the norms of those who status quo.
Find your path and follow it to the moon.”
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“In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?”
Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them”
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“In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness”
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“What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.”
Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.”
Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

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