Candy Bowers

“A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises” (breaking through it leaves scars)

Candy Bowers

Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover.

  • Background: South African | Australian
  • Making people feel tension in performance
  • Explaining the Apartheid
  • Not just whats going on outside of us but also intra-community conversations
  • Using the term Colonial Supremacy instead of white supremacy
  • challenging the conservatism
  • Female roles in theatre performance
  • Perpetuating gender roles in theatre
  • preventing diabetes being the ultimate decolonisation: One the Bear
  • Changing relationship with food, challenging relationship with sex and women
  • South Africans and diabetes and introduction of sugar
  • “Spiritual underpinning of diabetes, is unrequited love” – Candy Bowers
  • Empowering yourself, on others terms
  • “The process of decolonisation is so much about self care and self loving…Pure nurture” – Candy Bowers , an opposition of the structure and binaries of colonials
  • “You don’t fight possession with possession” – Candy Bowers
  • Growing self worth
  • Legacies and monogamy
  • Period blood and spinster-ism

“Decolonisation isn’t colonisation” (by a different group)

Candy Bowers

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