Finding Jess
Jesse Naidoo’s autobiographical account is a unique story set in a working-class Indian South African family in greater Durban and weaves in questions of gender, race, sexuality, illness and identity. It is a story of intersectionality. Jess’s story shows the reader how her formative years were shaped by the racial marginalisation of apartheid South Africa, by the requirements of heteronormativity, by the narrow confines of gender performance, and by ideas of ableism, denying the validity o...
