Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Black transgender women celebrated in Women’s Month exhibition
mambaonline.comLehlogonolo Machaba, Tholang Motshumi and Yaya Mavundla photographed by Terra Dick To commemorate Women’s Month in South Africa, an exhibition titled Layers of a Black Transgender Woman, presented and curated by transgender activist Yaya Mavundla, is now on at Constitution Hill’s Women’s Jail in Johannesburg. The exhibition – supported by Constitution Hill, Access Chapter 2 and Ingram’s – aims to create conversations around inclusivity, gender politics and identity.
It also seeks to redefine what it means to be a woman and validate transgender women as women. This groundbreaking exhibition features three black transgender women who are in the media and at the forefront of transgender visibility in South Africa.
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