Tweet On the morning of Dec. 11, 2007, Anthony Adero decided to leave his hometown forever and head to the capital, because he wanted to kiss a man for the first time in his life. He packed the few essentials needed for his five-hour trip, little things that carry weight, like family photographs and a [...]
Call For Papers TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1:2 Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary
October 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What would it mean to “decolonize the transgender imaginary?” Popular narratives about transgender communities, identities, and practices outside North America and Europe often imagine non-Western locales as either idyllic havens of traditional acceptance towards gender diversity, or else as backward places in which trans people, like gays and lesbians (both Euro-American constructs) are universally shunned [...]
Transgender community as an African in the Diaspora
October 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Violent suppression of initiatives we cannot understand or even deaths in the African Diaspora as well as the African LGBTI set us back for generations but worse still is the hypocrisy and corruption that blinds us to this fact. Why? When you kill a living being because of their gender identity or whatever reason, you rob yourself and the rest of the universe of a part of What Is. Because of our mundane human conditioning and ingrained religious into
Abdellah Taia & Self Actualisation – Gay, Moroccan, an Arab, a Muslim, an African
October 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Texting Poetry – 5: When……
October 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
When I look in the mirror I see a beautiful woman I see a woman’s woman I see the reflection of a Goddess looking back at me: Oshun, Oya, Moremi, Mirror, mirror show me The Great Goddess I feel, Tara, saviour, me, I see. When I look in the mirror I don’t see impositions I don’t kowtow for bread I don’t disappear into thin Air on hatred’s lashes. I See a bodhisatsva’s flair. I See tolerant compassion Deeper than any surface Glimpse -I see humanity. When I look in the mirror I feel empowered, free, I feel loving kindness, I feel purposeful prime -I, Human consciousness so Far and vast beyond the Veneer of infrastructural Daily dangled tokens. I’m above empty platitudes. When I look in the mirror I see a beautiful woman I see a woman’s woman I see the reflection of a Goddess looking back at me: Oshun, Oya, Moremi, Mirror, mirror show me The Great Goddess I feel, Tara, saviour, me, I see… Mia Nikasimo (c) July ’09
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