Proudly African & Transgender: Portraits by Gabrielle Le Roux in collaboration with trans and intersex activists.
Portraits and narratives of ten transgender Africans from seven countries in East and Southern Africa by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with Victor Mukasa exhibited for the first time by Amnesty International – Amsterdam. Zimbabwe: Amanda Uganda: Julius South Africa: Bongi Burundi:…
An intimate portrait of Somalian trans-woman
From Inkanyiso.– An intimate portrait of Somalian trans-woman by Abdi Osman Labeeb is an intimate portrait of Sumaya, a Somali trans-woman. The project consists of large-scale colour photographs, and a double-projection video. Some of the photographs are studio portraits…
Call Me Kuchu, Victor Mukasa Speaking Out Against Misrepresentation of African Activists
Victor Thick Skin Mukasa speaking at Dartmouth College,US, criticises western activists and organisations for misrepresenting and disrespecting African activists. African LGBTI Human Rights Defenders – Public statement of warning!
Isiphiwo Sami – An exploration of Black Queers in SA [Video]
Isiphiwo Sami a short film by Zanele Muholi – an exploration of Black Queers in SA (Beauties)… Queerizing Public Spaces. Produced in Durban in 2013, an exchange between black trans/ femme gay identifying persons from Durban and Johannesburg.
Neocolo Chop Chop {A Poem to Goody Jonatenn & 9Ja Kaki Lovers} {Poems of Resistance}
Neocolo Chop Chop As A look u so u be gay Dis na my chance to chop & Chop & chop sotay dem no Go say A no work, A no put Food for table, A no put roof Over…
Statement from the Wits University on Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Africa
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL DATE: MONDAY, 3 MARCH 2014 STATEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND PERTAINING TO ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LEGISLATION IN AFRICA The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation in…
Storm [Poem by Mia Nikasimo]
Storm The tremors vibrate through This isn’t a storm. No wind. Nothing just the door slam Six door slams and I wonder Why, why, why this thunder? “You are not a woman,” as if Your mess was all there was….
Queercide: Campaign Against Violence Against Women – Why We Must Document
In 2012 there were 10 murders of black lesbians, gays and transgender people in South Africa. In Uganda, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which includes the death penalty and makes LGBTI people and anyone or organisation that supports or helps them, into…
Garlands
Garlands What response befits a company of douche-bags? This is not about us. No, it so isn’t about us. The uninvited attention from wayward wands. Fighting voices fly upwards from the street nags Below. What makes everyone think they know?…
A transgender suicide
From inkanyiso by by Lerato Dumse On the 1st of August 2013, a 17 year old self identifying transgender (youth) was one of the approximately 23 suicides reported daily in South Africa with 230 serious attempts. He hanged himself. According…
CatchAFyah – Caribbean Feminist Network Call to Action
CatchAFyah has a Call to Action directed at CARICOM across the Caribbean including organisations in Haiti [Kouraj, SeroVie] Jamaica, [CVC COIN, Jamaican’s For Justice, Quality of Citizenship Jamaica,] and Pan Caribbean – [CARIFLAGS, Caribbean DAWN] denouncing recent transphobic and homophobic…
Haiti: KOURAJ: “Be True to Yourself”
The evangelical churches responsible for driving homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and the USA have begun a campaign of violence and hate in Haiti. On Friday, an all faith coalition of homophobic haters called [The Haitian Coalition of Religious and…
Haiti: ‘Des Hommes et Dieux’ [Of Men and Gods] Film
‘Des Hommes et Dieux’ [Of Men and Gods”] A documentary on the struggles of Haitian trans women by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire
Haiti: Interview with LGBT organization, KOURAJ
I recently met with Ernest Gaubert of KOURAJ Ayiti which is a grassroots organization with members in Cap Haitian, Gonaïves, St Marc, Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. It began as a social organisation Ami – Ami [friend to friend] in 2010 but the…
A Mother’s Story
Ricki Kgositau interviews Diana, a mother on coming to terms with her transgender son A Mother’s Story* – “I started opening up to him and my child becoming relaxed no longer afraid of me, just like the old times. He…
Not trans enough? “I’m trans because its the inner sense of who I am!
From LGBTSr an interview with Ugandan LGBTI activist and human rights defender Victor Mukasa Victor has pursued the cause of human rights with tremendous dedication in Africa and globally. He is a founding member of several Ugandan and regional…
Christina Mavuma
he is a trans activist from Botswana who is apart of the Rainbow Identity Association (RIA), and works with Health Lens; a program that provides services to primary care practices and gives independent physicians an opportunity to engage in meaningful change. It has been described as a movement of change, helping to reshape the role of primary care, and to sustain the cognitive art of medicine.
#16Days: I am a Genderqueer Peculiarite.
500 years ago a formidable army descended on the university city of Sankore in Timbucktu. When they left the Peculiarites emerged from the spoils. The inhabitants viewed by the Spanish as a strange skin colour, their strange language (if it…
Frisked by Frisker : A Transphobia Story
So why the frisking, my darling frisker?
You size me up as I approach your citadel;
Your mind cannot withstand my masculine;
You frisk me as rough as I have ever experienced
How could you then question racist next door
Fighting Oppression 1
To think most African’s in the Diaspora, some literate others illiterate, who think we no longer suffer the consequences of colonialism? Racism, transphobia (or what some call gender-phobia2) and sexism (both hetero and homo) to be sure. Decolonialism, which one would be sensible to view as your line of work still leave
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