In Cape Town there are limited LGBTQ spaces, and “those that do exists are mostly white and inaccessible for most queer people of color.”
. The brilliant best friends have been busy subverting the cis-hetero gaze since they met and started performing together eight years ago, leading a cultural movement for positive, progressive change in South Africa through their art. They produce experimental electronic music inspired by the raw house-like genre known as gqom, and dance to it far better than you ever could, all the while redefining what it is to be queer and African.
Captured here by 19-year-old Cape Town photographer Daniel Walton, FAKA and their chosen family unit of creatives get ready for a big night out at Zer021, a culturally important club in Cape Town’s district six. “Zer021 is a gay club that has been the home for many drag queen performers and a space for young and disenfranchised queer black and brown bodies,” explains local filmmaker Jabu Nadia Newman, who shot FAKA’s new music videowith collaborator Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose at the venue.
This is exactly why FAKA started their own club night, Cunty Power, which they hold cross-country at Zer021 as well as their local Johannesburg club, King Kong. “We’re creating something that is more inclusive, something that encompasses the full spectrum of being queer, black, femme and African,” they told Mykki Blanco in i-D’s Matt Lambert-directeddocumentary in 2017.
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