north east regional extra | July 22 - 28, 2020
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22 - 28 July, 2020
A touch of ‘black girl magic’ THIS is a story about a girl from Harare, Zimbabwe. A young woman who moved to Australia to study. A talented filmmaker and intern doctor who now calls Wangaratta home. It’s about Chido (pronounced Cheedo) Mwat and how she’s infusing her filmmaking dreams with her own special magic. Chido grew up enjoying warm winters and sunny days in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, before moving to Australia eight years ago to study. In Harare, Chido lived in the suburbs with her parents and three siblings, where she said that backyards were ‘definitely more of a thing in Zimbabwean suburbs, than in Australian suburbs’.
◆ MAGICAL: Chido Mwat combines her passion for filmmaking alongside her passion for medicine as an intern doctor. PHOTO: Kieren Tilly
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By BELINDA HARRISON “Stereotypically, ‘Africa’ is shown to have huts, but we lived in pretty regular housing,” Chido said. The capital was founded in 1890 and named Fort Salisbury after the UK Prime Minister of the time. In 1982, on Zimbabwe’s second anniversary of independence from the United Kingdom, Salisbury was re-named Harare and took its name from the village near Harare Kopje from the chief whose nickname was ‘he who does not sleep’. Chido’s culture and roots are steeped in her blood and it’s those experiences and memories
which add a touch of ‘black girl magic’ to everything she does. “Black girl magic is hard to define, but I think it comes from the fact that for a long time black women have played significant roles in making things happen despite being put down in mainstream society,” Chido said. “For me, black girl magic is not the same as the strong black woman stereotype; it’s the ability to create and connect despite the odds while experiencing the vulnerability and ‘feels’ along the way. “Examples would be Michelle Obama, Issae Rae, Michaela Cole, Janelle Monae and Moonchild Salley - they do stuff that makes people say ‘wow - yup, a black woman did that’.”
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