PRESS RELEASE 11 FEBRUARY 2022 Iranti notes with great disappointment and a measure of sadness that President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again rendered LGBTIQ persons invisible by failing to address the needs of the LGBTIQ community in yet another State of Nation Address (SONA). For LGBTIQ persons the parliamentary fire is symbolic of more than…
The possession of an identity document is essential to function in our world. For transgender, gender diverse and intersex people, legal gender recognition (LGR) is not only necessary to help them meet their basic needs but to survive. In South Africa, Act 49 makes it difficult for transgender, gender diverse and intersex people to obtain…
Iranti’s new Comms and Media Manager Nolwazi Tusini hopes to make a meaningful mark in queer spaces by documenting stories of joy, influencing conversations about gender and gender-based violence, and raising the profile of a 10-year-old organisation. “I left the newsroom after 10 years as a broadcast journalist, looking for a new challenge and I…
On 5 November 2019, Iranti launched the Safety, Dignity, and Freedom (SDF) research report that combines a baseline survey of existing mainstream media coverage of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI+) with focus-group discussions to understand the experiences of LGBTI+ individuals and their interactions with mainstream media in each of the five countries….
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