Representation that sells us shoes
Adidas and other private, for-profit companies that are embracing corporate queerness are never going to contribute to our liberation.
Adidas and other private, for-profit companies that are embracing corporate queerness are never going to contribute to our liberation.
Enough of the ignorance: LGBT+ rights are Ghanaian and human rights, not an attempt by Westerners to impose their values or culture.
The new short film "Ifé" is a moving story about the delights and difficulties of human relationships.
The director of Kenyan film 'Rafiki' discusses leading the struggle against state sponsored censorship in Kenya right now.
In honor of Pride month, we revisit the past which shows that many Africans were unapologetic about their sexuality and gender non-conformity.
What it means to be a man and a feminist.
There is a disconcerting resemblance between how some Senegalese talk about homosexuality and how they discuss COVID-19.
The use of Evangelical Christianity to oppose progressive policies on sexuality education in schools is another example of Ghana’s march to the right.
No child should choose between having food, love, and a roof over their head or being their full self.
To say we are "allies" would be to delude ourselves into thinking that some of us are safe. We are not safe.
A new documentary film aims to promote awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ in a country where living openly as a gay woman is often a silent and secret struggle.
How do queer women in Senegal navigate the simultaneous desires of same-sex intimacies, family life, societal expectations, and urban success?
Queer identities, widely accepted on the pitch in women's football, may be the way to challenge gender norms in some societies.
Turn any homophobic corner in Africa and you're guaranteed to run into a delirious celebration of "African culture," but there's nothing African about homophobia.
Are postapartheid norms against open homophobia in party politics eroding in South Africa?
Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
The identities, liberal or homophobe are cultural and political. They are not a perfect mirror of the narrative of homophobia in Africa.
In Malawi, artists, especially poets—usually associated with progressivism and intellectualism—are the vanguard of a new homophobia.
Homosexuality continues to be a dangerous topic in Senegal. There, as in much of the African continent, heteronormative behavior is enforced with violence.