Gender Minorities
Zamfara, Nigeria (Minority Africa) — It is a little past two on a June afternoon.…
In his sophomore year of college, 21-year-old Alex came out as gay to his middle-aged…
For as long as I can recall, almost everything I tried to learn about sexual…
The organizers explain that rest is political for women because they have been socialized to…
I started transitioning in 2020 during the Covid19 pandemic. At the time, I was living…
In Namibia, there is a high incidence of sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) targeting women.…
Colonialism demonized African traditional practices forcing people to turn to Abrahamic religions. These religions, in turn, ostracised queer people and denied them access to spiritual spaces due to their queerness.
Faced with transphobia in the country’s healthcare system, trans women in Cameroon looked across Africa for solutions to access Hormone Replacement Therapy. An informal network is adopting these interventions.
Framing conversations about queerness around the modernity of first-world nations and their global influence does a poor job of recognizing the ancientness of queer identities and how they often manifested all around the world in pre-colonial societies.
Multimedia artist and writer, Saif Arbee digs into queer history in South Africa to help us better understand the present.