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A rose is a rose is a rose: We seriously need to rethink our ideas about conventional marriage, be it between heterosexual or same-sex couples. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP

There’s a queer way to think about marriage

"Since when is marriage a path to liberation?"

Limits: Alanis Morissette reminds us there are complications in seeking out the familiar in relationships. Photo: Gallo Images
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Daddy’s girl seeks a prince familiar

Song ‘Princes Familiar’ gives an example of the importance of the first relationship some women have been privileged to have: our first love.

The one who got away: When Kwanele Sosibo was at school, he fell in love with a lovely ebony girl and still muses about a long-lost love whose beauty and strength were far beyond skin deep

A class photo and an us that never was

"I should have said it out plainly on that lunch break: she’s actually fucking beautiful, you numbnuts."

Illustration: N. Hlalethwa

For the love of my roommate, my bestie, my brother

A young man’s heartbreak lands softly, though reluctantly into the nest of friendship that he has built with his favourite sibling

Illustration: Ellen Heydenrych

The thrill of riding the love roller-coaster

Even though I have a pitifully large collection of rejections, blunders and heartbreaks, I’m willing to try again and again.

Graphic: John McCann

A nose for the flavours of love

Research says people use smell to find mates and personal experience show women are better at it

Love through the pain: Gugu Mhlungu is learning that self-love is a necessity. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Self-love in a time of sickness  is healing

"As a teen I worried about my dimpled thighs, but then I had to deal with mental and physical illness."

Zukiswa Wanner writes about the relationship she has with her son. Photo: Mail & Guardian

Love will win when I can’t protect him

"Perhaps a feminist deity gave birth to feminist sons so they could raise the sort of men they would have wanted to be surrounded by."

Love story: History is rewritten by people who, like Dr Martin Luther King, care enough to fight for others. Photo: AFP

On taking Love seriously

The world can be a hate-filled place but love, the essence of our being, makes it beautiful