Voices
Cameroon’s formal education system is keeping out blind and visually impaired students and it doesn’t stop there.
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.…
The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP27 will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh,…
I had never considered the choice of motherhood being anything but my own. I had never been told I might not have a choice in the matter, that my body might be incapable of it or that I might want it and never have it. What did that feel like? Especially for a lot of women who hinged their sense of self on the ability to procreate? Until that point, the other girls and I had been separated from the women who wanted to use the eggs; they had seemed like rich faceless people whom we knew would someday carry offspring from our eggs. But what were their struggles? What led them to the clinic? How long had they searched for children?
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.
I was not pondering motherhood on the afternoon of Friday, November 6, 2020; I was…
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.
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The colonial construction of transphobia and the continued enforcement of the gender hegemony, have created an environment in which transgender people have to conform to idealised depictions of femininity and masculinity to find a sense of community and safety.