In a landmark decision the High Court of Delhi has ruled that Secion 337 of the Indian Penal Code is unconstitutional. Section 377 which criminalises same sex relationships dates back to the 19th centuary British colonial rule in India. Although the penalty of up to 10 years in prison has rarely been used, the police [...]
“My mother would
Say, ‘those gay people
Are unnatural…’ just a
Product of her time”.
My Attention asked of her
Thoughts hidden behind
Unspoken present angst:
yalo -the masculine woman,
Ito -the Transgender man,
Julio -The transman, the sworn
Fag hag armed with his
Perky breasts to boot
Are examples to us all
Who do or who do not
Inhabit gender variant
Space. Normative gender
In it’s paranoid
Restriction aims to rob [...]
Wole Soyinka makes a public statement on the Niger Delta. Particularly pertinent is his emphasis on making a distinction between genuine militants seeking justice and opportunistic mercenaries s seeking to destroy.
“The attempt in some quarters to confuse issues by refusing to separate the principled militants, such as members of MEND and its affiliates, from the [...]
Here with gratitude to
All transgender, gender
-Queer & gendered Alike,
Listen up people: nobody
Knows anything they do
Not acknowlegde out of
Fear. Do not judge
Anything from a position
Of fear. There is always
Something new beneath
The face of heaven,
Always, always, always.
Here with gratitude to
Say what we have all
Long suspected but darn’t
Openly or outwardly
Speak lest we are found
Wanting & undesirably so.
Under the [...]
Memorial for Father Jean-Juste Saturday, June 27, 7 p.m., at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison, Berkeley
Pierre Labossiere with his daughter Malaika glow in the presence of Father Gerry Jean-Juste when he spoke on Sept. 9, 2006, at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Berkeley.
This historic interview by Minister of Information JR for Block [...]
An interactive map of the Niger Delta by the Financial Times showing oil fields and conflict zones -See MAP
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Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s president, offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta on Friday as part of his strategy for ending attacks on Africa’s biggest oil [...]
Un oiseau passe
éclair de plumes
dans le courrier du crépuscule
VA
VOLE
ET DIS-LEUR
Dis-leur que tu viens d’un pays
formé dans une poignée de main
un pays simple comme bonjour
où les nuits chantent
pour conjurer la peur des lendemains
dis-leur
que nous sommes une bouchée
répartie sur sept îles
comme les sept couleurs de la semaine
mais que jamais ne vient
le dimanche de nous-mêmes
VA
VOLE
ET DIS-LEUR
Dis-leur que les [...]
Gabrielle’s centenarians
Brings our ancestors to us
What can I say? wow
I think of growth and hope
Dignity wisdom and love
I feel the forays
In road from the Impasse
Of youth caught up
In stuff, caught up in stuff
I thought about folk, my
Grandparents, ancestors
I heard all the unvoiced
calls in our minds as we
revelled in their sharing
If only we can [...]
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