finding yourself a partner who constantly expands your worldview is an incredible goal. the best way to attract and cultivate this kind of intellectual connection is to seek out people who challenge your perspectives, introduce you to new domains, and match your curiosity
We are not short of South African stories.
We are short of the systems that help those stories reach us.
I wrote about Studying Under the Barrel of a Gun, South African cinema, historical memory, and why we cannot keep waiting for the world to tell us our own stories matter.
Soulmates, but not in the gentle, romantic sense. Soulmates in the way that their fates are woven together so tightly that neither can become who they’re meant to be without the other. They challenge, shape, and transform each other—for better or for worse. Together, they’re unstoppable; apart, they’re incomplete. Equals in every sense. And if anyone could bring the other to their knees, it would be them. Two lives bound by something deeper than love: a connection neither of them can escape.