Candy Bowers

"A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises" (breaking through it leaves scars)Candy Bowers Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover. Background: South African | AustralianMaking people feel tension in performance Explaining the Apartheid Not just whats going on outside of us but also intra-community conversations Using the term Colonial Supremacy instead of white supremacy challenging the conservatism Female roles in theatre performance Perpetuating gender roles in theatrepreventing diabetes being the ultimate decolonisation: One the BearChanging relationship with food, challenging relationship with sex and women South Africans and diabetes and introduction of sugar "Spiritual underpinning of diabetes, is unrequited love" - Candy BowersEmpowering yourself, on others terms"The process of decolonisation is so much about self care and self loving...Pure nurture" - Candy Bowers , an opposition of the structure and binaries of colonials"You don't fight possession with possession" - Candy BowersGrowing self worth Legacies and monogamy Period blood and spinster-ism "Decolonisation isn't colonisation" (by a different group)Candy Bowers links: https://thecandybowers.blog/https://www.linkedin.com/in/candy-bowers-82876338/?originalSubdomain=auhttps://www.facebook.com/candy.bowershttps://twitter.com/TheCandyBowershttps://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/a-hip-hop-fairytale-worth-hearing-20190701-p522xq.html