Daily Maverick

DM is much better if you are signed in...

Enter your email below and we will send you a mail with a link or one-time pin to login

Sign in with OAuth

Get Support DM Shop Support DM

queerness

Nkoli: The Vogue-Opera — it’s fierce, fabulous … and freaking fantastic

Maverick Life

Nkoli: The Vogue-Opera — it’s fierce, fabulous … and freaking fantastic

By Keith Bain

The Child by Alistair Mackay — the story of a new generation of South Africans

Maverick Life

The Child by Alistair Mackay — the story of a new generation of South Africans

By Alistair Mackay

TikTok activism: how queer Zimbabweans use social media to show love and fight hate

Maverick Life

TikTok activism: how queer Zimbabweans use social media to show love and fight hate

By Gibson Ncube and Princess Sibanda

Pride societies are springing up at Cape schools, but hoisting the queer-friendly flag was ‘no easy task’

South Africa

Pride societies are springing up at Cape schools, but hoisting the queer-friendly flag was ‘no easy task’

By Giuseppe Rajkumar Guerandi

Teen drama ‘Euphoria’ dominates zeitgeist with brutally honest take on addiction, gender and mental illness

Media

Teen drama ‘Euphoria’ dominates zeitgeist with brutally honest take on addiction, gender and mental illness

By Giuseppe Rajkumar Guerandi

Banning African films like Rafiki and Inxeba doesn’t diminish their influence

Magazine

Banning African films like Rafiki and Inxeba doesn’t diminish their influence

By Gibson Ncube

‘The Prophets’: A gay love story set in the hellfire of a Mississippi slave plantation

Magazine

‘The Prophets’: A gay love story set in the hellfire of a Mississippi slave plantation

By Keith Bain