Spending the festive season with chosen family
Being rejected by families because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression is common for the LGBTQIA+ community in South Africa. While many of us prepare to spend the festive season with our families, many members of this marginalised community have to find love elsewhere.…
Celebrating Africa's biggest Pride event with Dr Bev Ditsie
As the country observes Pride Month, we look at how the first ever pride march hosted in South Africa in 1990 became the catalyst for the decriminalisation of homosexuality and acknowledgment of the LGBTQIA+ community in the country. We speak to one of the founders of the march, Dr Palesa Bev Ditsi…
Transwomen with no safe healthcare
Transgender people are so often misunderstood, there isn't even sufficient healthcare for them in the public health system. In the second episode of The Broken Rainbow, EWN looks at how at times transpeople are understood, but not always - including prescribing them questionable medication. See o…
Hated for being lesbian
Hated for being lesbian is the podcast’s first episode that looks at issue of so-called “corrective rape” (correctively known as punitive or hate rape). The episode looks at why South Africa, a country that has been labelled one the rape capitals of the world numerous times, can never have accurate…