I am a white South African who was born in the final years of apartheid and started grade 1 in the new South Africa. I am privileged and defined by my cultural heritage: I seek to find more ethical ways of becoming and creating space for change and acknowledgment of others' humanness and difference.
I am a reader who realises that good books can change me for the better only as much as I am open to the change.
I am a writer aware of the limitations, inadequacies and complicated beauty of language. I try to wield this craft a little better every day, and I learn even more when I am brave enough to dare.
I believe in the "better": in good and in evil. I believe that love (agape) is what is good, not my sexual orientation or the colour of my skin.
But most importantly, I believe it's not about me.
