Mandhla. is a 22 year old trans-feminine gender non-comforming body from Zimbabwe, Africa. As a current resident in Koln, she brings a blend of experimental R&B and Soul music intertwined with visual projections and performative dancing. Her music speaks of the daily trials that Trans*, enby and femme* immigrant bodies experience daily with love, identity, sex and acceptance. A strong lover of fashion, the art of voguing and music, she promises to bring to you an experience that takes you to a world of beauty and divine epiphanies through fierce queer representation and black femme power.

Mandhla. will display a piece exploring the effects of black trauma on queer artists of colour and navigating that pain through the colonial gaze that is violently presented to us through the audiences we perform for. Often times as femmes of colour we feel like vessels that everyone finds emotional release from while leaving specific spaces more empty than we came. Her performance will be a combination of live singing, spoken word and performative drag, exploring the journey of creation, the effects of trauma and rising above the ashes in a world that is trying to burn us with it.

We are very happy to have Mandhla at IN*VISION!