Creator
Marnell Kirsten is a senior visual studies lecturer and researcher. She has a keen interest in media and communication studies, and understanding cultural trends in representation and communication. She writes in her personal capacity.
Showmax’s ‘Sex in Afrikaans’ explores the continued taboo of representing sex in the Afrikaans language
The relations of social domination are reproduced in our habitual ways of talking
Three texts through which to understand current unrest in South Africa – by Slavoj Žižek, Frantz Fanon and Alan Paton