In March, Banzii Mavuso, the founder of the Black Queer initiative, released a music video for her “electronic/ancestral” song, Cosmic Fire, Mamba Online reports. According to Banzii, the purpose of the music video is to “encourage people to tap into their full potential—fire!”
“For years I wondered why I am masculine but at this point, I am embracing all that is within me – masculine and feminine energy – to reach my highest potential. And I am doing all I am doing to speak for people who look like me, from villages across Africa, who don’t see how they could start creating and being genuinely themselves,” Banzii adds.
” I wrote it during a time of protests that were happening in Joburg last year,” Banzii Mavuso, says in her interview with CapeTalk. “There were actions happening around me where I’d always feel slighted because there was homophobic activity happening, both from male and female towards me as a black, queer masculine, woman.”
The team shot the movie in January with funding from Gauteng Film Commission (GFC). Banzii hopes to release the movie on Netflix or Showmax as soon as COVID-19 restrictions are eased.
“I just want people to respect people like myself,” Banzii Mavuso adds.
Watch the trailer for Banzii Mavuso’s new movie, Gang 888 here:
