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“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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