Season 2, Episode 6: If we are not careful, memories die…or are stolen
Season 2, Episode 6: If we are not careful, memories die…or are stolen
In this episode, edna bonhomme and Skye Tinevimbo Chirape discuss Decolonising Forensic Psychology, migration, and decolonial research practices especially as it relates to the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
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BIOGRAPhy
Skye Tinevimbo Chirape
Photo credit. fotobooth, Durban, South Africa
Skye Tinevimbo Chirape
Skye is a Forensic Psychology scholar and doctorate candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. Her research, provisionally titled, “The Hare and the Baboon: Human (In)Security, migration and victimisation of African LGBT asylum seekers in the context of the UK asylum interview process” investigates broader issues around structural violence and the ongoing conversation on the politics of migration and borders of gender and sexuality. It specifically centres African LGBT persons seeking asylum in the UK. Skye is also a part-time lecturer (teaching post-graduate Political Psychology) and a member of, the hub for decolonial feminist Psychologies in Africa at UCT. Skye’s visual activism has continued to centre migration, gender & sexuality, trauma, structural violence, gendered violence and decolonial feminist psychology. In the recent years Skye’s academic and community work has focused on the conversation of trauma, decolonising work on trauma, healing / healing justice, collective healing and holding space within Black LGBTIQ+ communities and movements. Skye’s MSc in Forensic research “He was treated like a criminal,” evaluated the impact of detention related trauma on LGBTI refugees and has been presented at universities in London, New York, Amsterdam, and Berlin and, was published in 2018.
In the past, Skye has worked for the UK criminal justice system specialised in sexual offenders and Intimate partner violence / homicide. Often in collaborating with other artists and organisations, she has used visual art / activism to examine geopolitical issues, drawing from personal / lived experiences. Skye has curated exhibitions in London, taken part in the 10th Berlin Biennale, and participated in an exchange with the British artist Emma McGarry, at the Tate Modern gallery. In 2018, Skye appeared on the cover of Diva Magazine; in 2014, on the cover of Complexd woman magazine and was nominated for a BEFFTA award in 2010. In 2014, Skye was identified as one of 15 British-based womxn campaigners making changes in the world and was published in the book, Here We Stand: Women Changing the World.
Bibliography
Chirape, S. R. T. (2018). "‘He was treated like a criminal’: Evaluating the impact of detention related trauma on LGBTI refugees.” In The Colour of Madness. Stirling Publishing, edited by S. Linton and R. Walcott.
Chirape, S. R. T. (2015). “Trauma: Not just for the victims, a review. Convenor: Lorraine Perry.” The Forensic Update no. 119.
Skyetshookii[1], S. (2017). “Hidden in the Open: Zanele Muholi’s Body of Photographic Work, ‘Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness’,” in Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, exhibition catalogue edited by Renee Mussai.
Chirape, S. R. T. (2014). “The Freedom of Others” In Here We Stand: Women Changing the World, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones.
Chirape, S. R. T. (2014). “The Ritual Communication of (Black Queer) Bodies,” Ladybeard (The Sex Issue).
Skyetshookii, S. (2014). “Transgender Day of Remembrance: An Artist View, ” Commonwealth Writers Blog.
Groups mentioned in this episode
Black Earth - BIPOC Environmental and Climate Justice Collective Berlin
Xart Splitta, Berlin
Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland Bund e.V.
Each One Teach One (EOTO), Berlin
SHOW CREDITS
INTERVIEW
edna bonhomme
EDITING / POST-PRODUCTION
edna bonhomme
IMAGE CREDIT
—(Left): featuring Skye sitting down, a collaboration between Cloudy Moroni & Skye Skyetshookii (2014)
—(Right): a person lowering their knickers is from an exhibition that Skye co-curated with Priscillar Gurupira and the image belongs to a Zimbabwean artist, Nancy Mteki.
MUSIC
MattiaGiovanetti (477877, Attribution License, Creative Commons), NALALIONGIRL (442612, Attribution License, Creative Commons), X3nus (450539, Attribution License, Creative Commons), zagi2 ( 265251, Attribution License, Creative Commons)
THANK YOU
A special thanks to Skye Tinevimbo Chirape.