The Feel Of Free

I wish I had friends like you in real life! It's so fucking hard being a gay Nigerian. The Nigerian 'friends' I have are homophobic as fuck and the gay friends I have are all White. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I love them. It's just that I'm still an outsider in some sense. How did you meet the queer Nigerians you know? from Anonymous

honestly? i didn’t know a single one until i moved to new york. i think it’s living in places like nyc, dc, oakland, probably atlanta. i’m sorry you’re lacking a tolerant Naija community, i was lucky enough to come out within one, i can’t imagine how hard it must be without it :( but we’re here online! i know it’s not much, but you’re definitely not alone. have you checked out www.soginaija.com? more of us are listed under the resources section. sending strength and love o! xx

# Anonymous SOGI Naija

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perrrolike: According to her House mother Angie Xtravaganza, Venus Xtravaganza was found strangled and stuffed under a bed in a New York hotel room in 1988. Her body was discovered by a stranger four days after her death.

perrrolike:

According to her House mother Angie Xtravaganza, Venus Xtravaganza was found strangled and stuffed under a bed in a New York hotel room in 1988.

Her body was discovered by a stranger four days after her death.

# SOGI

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queernonymoose: thefullmetalbitch: angrybanette: trans-hijabis: Transwoman from Bangladesh! this blog is clearly going to be the best blog ever. oh so beautiful I just want to say something. And it’s something I learned in class and I have also been contextualizing from an American Indigenous perspective. This person is beautiful, but I think foisting the label of trans* woman onto them is a bit presumptuous. Hijras are not some sort of Indian/Bengali/Hindu parallel to transgender. Hell, we don’t even know if this person is just a Kothi or something else. Maybe they DO identify as trans* woman. The word transgender is in fact a western construction, that is very true. I just want people to caution on throwing transgender labels on fellow People of Color.

queernonymoose:

thefullmetalbitch:

angrybanette:

trans-hijabis:

Transwoman from Bangladesh!

this blog is clearly going to be the best blog ever.

oh

so beautiful

I just want to say something. And it’s something I learned in class and I have also been contextualizing from an American Indigenous perspective.

This person is beautiful, but I think foisting the label of trans* woman onto them is a bit presumptuous.

Hijras are not some sort of Indian/Bengali/Hindu parallel to transgender. Hell, we don’t even know if this person is just a Kothi or something else. Maybe they DO identify as trans* woman.

The word transgender is in fact a western construction, that is very true. I just want people to caution on throwing transgender labels on fellow People of Color.

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# SOGI

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no no no no no no

:’(

newmodelminority:

Burglar loots city photographer’s work

tionam:

AN AWARD-winning city photographer, who documents the lives of black lesbians, has lost five years of her work in a burglary at her Vredehoek flat.

Zanele Muholi, 39, hopes to get back at least a few of the more than 20 external hard drives that were among the items stolen from the flat she shares with her partner, Liesl Theron.

“It’s so painful. Five years of my life are gone,” she said.

Muholi says her work may have been targeted because little else was stolen. The hard drives contained thousands of stills and many hours of video footage captured in SA, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Uganda.

On the hard drives were the images captured at the funerals of three l esbians killed in hate crimes.

Muholi had visited Malawi days after gay couple Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were released from jail, and travelled to Uganda to see the unveiling of slain activist David Kato’s tombstone.

“I’ve dedicated my entire life to documenting queer lives. I wanted to make sure I document (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) lives. All my major projects are gone.

*This is my WORST NIGHTMARE! prayers up for Zanele and i truly hope that she finds that work. the pit in her stomach must be unbearable at this moment. shit like this will take you out the game. i have mourned hard drives like they were my unborn children, so i know the feeling.

# SOGI

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orobolicious:

curiositycounts:

Penalties for Male Homosexuality in Muslim Countries | The Economist

Naija is not a Muslim country sha

they specified that it’s in areas where sharia law is applied, since those are theocratic states that aren’t subject to the same laws as the rest of naija

which makes me laugh when ppl act like naija cares about its constitution

sharia shouldn’t even be instituted in any state, that is a breach of the constitution

but no1curr

# Naija SOGI

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The assertion of a public gay identity is particularly problematic in an African context. To illustrate, Kendall found that the notion of “lesbian” was not helpful in understanding female–female relationships in Basotho. She found widespread, apparently normative erotic relationships among Basuto women, but this (including instances of cunnilingus) was not defined as sexual, and not a single Mosotho—to Kendall’s knowledge—defined herself as a lesbian. Kendall concludes that “love between women is as natural to Southern Africa as the soil itself, but that homophobia is a Western import” (Kendall, 1998, p. 224). She emphasizes that Basotho society has not constructed a social category “lesbian.” Basotho women define sexual activity in such a way that makes lesbianism linguistically inconceivable. As one informant told Kendall, “You can’t have sex unless somebody has a koai (penis).” Kendall comments,” Lillian Faderman’s observation that ‘a narrower interpretation of what constitutes eroticism permitted a broader expression of erotic behavior (in the 18th century) since it was not considered inconsistent with virtue’ makes sense here’ (Kendall, 1998, p. 233) “No koai, no sex means that women’s ways of expressing love, passion or joy in each other are neither immoral nor suspect” (Kendall, 1998, p. 233). “The need for legitimacy only arises in cultures (like my own) in which love between women has been pathologized or made illegitimate” (Kendall, 1998, p. 237). This implies a very different form of sexual politics to that of “the North.

— Engendering Gay and Lesbian Rights: The Equality Clause in the South African Constitution - Jaclyn Cock (via perrrolike)

(Source: dassitright)

# southern africa lesotho basotho masotho basuto lgbt lgbtq LGBTI lgbtqi lgbtq in africa SOGI

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