The Resurrection

May 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Anthony Adero granted me the privilege and the honor of discussing with him his redemptive experience following the trauma of being gang raped. We delved into his “afterlife,” his journey through fear, denial and social resistance, and the overwhelming difficulty of finding the expressive language to capture an awful occurrence that grew into a blessing as [...]

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, Queer Politics, sexual violence, Social Justice Links Tagged With: , ,

“The truth is, ‘Ngiyesaba’ – I’m shit scared” – Rape and Traumatic Recall

April 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

This form of violation is perpetrated with the explicit intention of ‘curing’ the lesbian of her
love for other women. Although many heterosexual survivors of rape attest to the stated intentions of their assailants as punitive (they have done something wrong, and thus ‘deserve’ rape), survivors of ‘curative rape’ make it clear that their attackers were interested in humiliating and punishing them for their choice of sexual identity and lifestyle and in ‘transforming’ them – by coercion – into heterosexual women.

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, Apartheid, Gender Violence, Queer Politics, QueerCide, sexual violence, Sexuality, Social Justice Links, South Africa Tagged With: , , , ,

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill – 2012

November 26, 2012 By 1 Comment

The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill is back in Parliament. It’s return was announced by Speaker Rebecca Kadaga who according to this report is committed to passing the Bill by the end of the year though Ugandan activists believe it could be passed as early as this week.

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QAR Weekly News

November 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Another South African Lesbian MurderThis morning (10/11/2012) I received a call from Ndumie Funda the founder and Director of Lulekisizwe a project that nurses, supports and feeds the lesbian bisexual and trans woman (LBT) in townships who are victims and survivors of “corrective rape”, whom I had just seen the day before and we were [...]

Filed Under: Africa LGBTI, Assault on Dissent, QAR, Queer Politics, QueerCide, sexual violence, South Africa Tagged With: , , , , ,

Fighting Oppression 1

October 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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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Nobody Knows My Gender

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The anger is still in me. Pure rage at certain people for failing to understand diversity beyond their narrow subjective paradises at the expense of those they claim to support through their activism. I ought to have written these words after Oxford 2011. At the time I was still too raw to review myself never [...]

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