Ling Sheperd

🌈 STI Awareness Across West Coast College Campuses 🌈

As we draw a close to STI Awareness Month, here’s why we’ve been quiet online: we spent the past month reaching students across five campuses, opening essential conversations about sexual health, safety and LGBTIQ+ wellbeing.

Malawi’s solar boom is leaving a toxic legacy of lead waste BLANTYRE, Malawi — On Lagson Gumbo’s side of the stream, BCA is a slum. Running parallel to the trickle of murky water is a narrow, dusty street lined with small, unplastered houses and shops trading…

Solar home systems are spreading fast in Malawi, along with short-lived lead-acid batteries.

Informal recycling is releasing toxic lead and acid, highlighting the need for stronger regulation and safer battery systems to avoid new environmental harms.

🎓 Just completed the Fact-checking Mis/Disinformation to Counter Inflammatory Narratives course with @code4africa.bsky.social & the African Fact-Checking Alliance!
Grateful for tools to fight harmful narratives & build safer info spaces.

#FactChecking #MediaEthics #CodeForAfrica #DigitalJustice

You can’t vote out fascism by the way. Not once in power. It has never happened in the history of the world.

I'm offering a custom hand-written poem for this! For you, or customized as a gift for someone who could use it. 💖

Last 5 days of the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction, featuring the likes of: a first ed. galley of Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World, signed & decorated books, art, comics, a bespoke cocktail, handmade delights various, and the chance to get a character named for you bit.ly/genrefortrans!

Time is running out to bid on a signed and doodled King Sorrow for this really excellent fund-raiser. 4 days to go.

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Your Name as a Character in a Richard Kadrey book Auction item 'Your Name as a Character in a Richard Kadrey book' hosted online at 32auctions.

I’m working with the good folks at Genre Creators in the UK and SA to raise money for trans rights. I have 2 items up for auction: a cocktail recipe designed just for you and a Tuckerization in an upcoming book. You can bid here

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Learning from those fighting for the LGBTQI+ rights - Tekano

🌈 “Naming LGBTQI+ experiences in our health systems helps us shift them.”

Bayanda Ndumiso of Triangle Project reflects on building more inclusive, just systems in Tekano’s latest feature on LGBTQI+ health and advocacy.

The fundraiser may be over but the work continues.
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Help us build an accessible, rooted, and justice-centred Pride.
🌍🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#SupportPride #QueerLivesMatter #KhumbulaniPride

🎤 Performers, speakers, and community leaders filled the night with power and purpose.

Every story shared, every note sung, helps build a Pride that heals.

#CommunityPower #RememberAndRise #KhumbulaniPride

🌈 Behind the scenes of the Khumbulani Pride Gala Fundraiser 🌈

More than a night of glamour, it was a night of solidarity, remembrance, and community power.
Khumbulani = “Remember” 🕯️
Let’s remember. Let’s rise.

#KhumbulaniPride #SupportPride #QueerCapeFlats

YouTube video by Triangle Project CT The Power of Communities | Ep 1: Thriving at the Intersection – Queer & Disabled Voices

💬 Real stories. Deep connection. Radical inclusion.

🎧 Watch, share, amplify.

#ThePowerOfCommunities #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #AccessibilityMatters

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#QueerFoodJustice #SupportQueerFarmers #FoodSovereignty #BuciAndHerBees #KnowledgeIsPower #QueerCollectives #BeekeepingMatters

🍯 Beekeeping isn’t just a cute hobby , it’s a radical act of resilience. And in our collective, knowledge like Buci’s is golden.
Let’s keep building skills, sharing tools, and growing queer food futures together.

From the #QueerFoodGrowingCollective #QFGC

🐝 Buci and her Bees 🌼

At QFGC , we know that growing food isn’t just about plants; it’s also about people, skills, and shared knowledge.

Pride marchers celebrate progress in townships But they call on justice system to do better, starting with the police

About 100 people march in Nomzamo, Strand to celebrate 12 years of Khumbulani Pride and to remember victims of hate crime

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🌱 The Queer Food Growing Collective Market returns Sunday, 1 June (9–3) at 2–4 Seymour St, Observatory!

Expect seed swaps 🌾, local vendors 🛍️, community vibes 🌍, and a surprise about healing 🌿

Come grow with us 💫
#QueerFoodGrowingCollective #SupportQueerBusiness #SeedSovereignty

Thank you to everyone who joined us in joy, grief, power, and solidarity.
📷 Tag us in your pics + vids and let’s keep this conversation going and keep showing up.

#KhumbulaniPride2025 #IDAHOBIT #QueerPride #Solidarity #CommunityPower

As anti-gender movements grow across the globe, we say: we’re not going anywhere.
💥 Nothing about us without us.

Khumbulani Pride 2025 was held on IDAHOBIT this year; a powerful reminder that Pride is protest, memory, and resistance. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

please send me any job links/ads you see fam, i wont let this pull me under

what a devastating day fam, im defeated by it, this is a low i wasn't prepared for

this is solidarity! this is movement building! we are in awe and the support means so much for triangle project, the trans community and all our siblings! We are so appreciative.

Ling! Thank you so much, it's been a joy watching this thrown-together idea grow and grow thanks to a whole community. People REALLY care about this issue and I personally know from trans friends back in Cape Town how much @triangleprojectngo.bsky.social has done for them. So glad we could do this.💙

Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

If you've got something genre and covetable people might want to bid on, hit me up. Rare books are great, but so many of the lots were also gorgeous, playful, handmade and affordable things www.32auctions.com/organization... as well as microfiction & recipes postcards, a personalised cocktail recipe

this is so moving and I am ngl I got very senti about this, in the best way. All of us in the sector are gonna face tough times , and already have, and seeing the work and movement building being challenged has been hard, and then seeing beacons like this give me hope, all of us. yall are amazing

Books and cool items on offer at the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Online auction

Books and cool items for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction

Some of the featured items on the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Charity Auction, inclkuding books, a desk, a dedication in KJ Charles' new book.

Handmade things of beauty donated for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights online auction. Images clockwise from top right, handspun Kent Romney yarn in trans colours, a hand-painted fan, a handmade music box inspired by Good Omens, which is a white wooden bench with a bird perching on it and a black hat resembling Terry Pratchett's iconic hat, a crocheted pink whale held aloft by a person's hand.

Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.

Screengrab from Mamba Online news story, full link here: https://www.mambaonline.com/2025/04/30/writers-raise-funds-for-uk-and-sa-transgender-rights/ Headline reads: Writers Raise Funds for UK and SA Transgender Rights. Image on left, 2013 photo of author Lauren Beukes, blonde, in blue and purple striped dress holding a copy of her novel, The Shining Girls, on the red leather top desk she donated to the auction with her 'murder wall" behind her. On right, author Jeannette Ng sititng in a tree in a mustard yellow dress and purple waistcoat, with lace-up boots.

Huge thanks to @ngjeannette.bsky.social* who escalated this from a simple selling-some-books-for-charity-at-Easterson into a whole damn auction. www.mambaonline.com/2025/04/30/w...

(*we also have an excellent person doing tons of admin and back-end stuff, who insists on not being credited)