Sindi-Leigh
McBride
McBride
Short Stories
"Manual for Mourning a Fling", Punya 2.0, 2024
"In the Shadow of the Skyscrapers", New Contrast, 2023
"Cassock Billowing", Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives, 2023
“Of Love, Loss and Watermelons ...”, The Mail & Guardian, 2017
“This Other Moody Guy” Prufrock Magazine, 2016
Fish River Canyon, 2020 (35mm)
Art Writing
"What Time Hides Forever in Plain Sight: the Timeliness of Adrian Fortuin", Artthrob, February 2024
"Sensing Space-Time through the Kinetic Laws of Birdsong: Rahima Gambo", Mousse Magazine, June 2023
"Field Notes: MADEYOULOOK, Documenta 15", e-flux Art & Education, August 2022
"Notes on a Speculative Photo Album: Gabrielle Goliath’s ‘This song is for…’" Artthrob, July 2022
"When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists 1940 – 2000 at Norval Foundation", Artthrob, May 2022
"The courage and catharsis of Tracey Rose", New Frame, April 2022
"Silkscreening the Pandemic", New Frame, June 2021
“Isaac Zavale’s visual ode to Joburg’s multiplicity”, New Frame, September 2020
“BATTLECRY: On Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s volcanoes”, Bubblegum Club, June 2020
“Sense of Place”, Bubblegum Club, April 2020
Book Reviews
"Portrait of the poet as a genius", Johannesburg Review of Books, February 2023
"Zikhona Valela’s campaign against erasure", New Frame, May 2022
"CA Davids, a quiet revolutionary", New Frame, May 2022
"Black and feminist in SA", New Frame, September 2021
"To photograph Switzerland is to rephotograph it", The Johannesburg Review of Books, August 2021
"The anti-apartheid posters of Medu", New Frame, April 2021
“Masande Ntshanga’s existential experimentation”, New Frame, December 2020
Essays
A Personal Anthology, April 2021
“A Somber School Story”, Doek!, March 2021
“The Filmmakers advancing a radical Black Afrikaans”, New Frame, November 2020
“Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning”, The Mail & Guardian, July 2020
“The Coffee Commons”, School of Commons, June 2020
“Azibuye – The 360° Virtual Reality Film”, Bubblegum Club, May 2020
“Hot girls in Cape Town”, The Single Story Foundation (TSSF) Journal, March 2019
“Waterworks: An Igby Prize essay about urinary tracts and aqueducts”, The Kalahari Review, July 2018
“Arundhati Roy in Johannesburg—An essay on essays”, Africa’s A Country, October 2017
“Bibles, bombs and God as love”, The Mail & Guardian, April 2017
“Low-key for the woke gang”, The Mail & Guardian, March 2017
“The lesson of Marikana”, Africa’s A Country, July 2015
“Dope Saint Jude messes with Cape Town’s head,” Africa’s A Country, March 2015
“Performing Society’s Provocations”, Africa’s A Country, March 2015
“Maboneng on fire”. Africa’s A Country, April 2015
“Toolbox for a Revolution” in Lines: State of the Nation, Goodman Gallery, 2012