Tweet ‘A Night of Fairytales’: An Audience With Diriye Osman – If you are in or around London you need to attend this event at the Poetry Cafe….. Diriye Osman is a Somali-born, British short story writer whose debut collection…
Tweet From Inkanyiso a documentary of Mo(u)rning by Zanele Muholi © Zanele Muholi 2013 Where: Thokoza township, Johannesburg What: Three (3) days after Duduzile Zozo’s burial When: 16/07/2013 How many: 24 participants excluding taxi drivers. Who: Mostly black lesbians and gays……
Tweet From Tande – Haitian fiction translated into English I’d been thinking about doing this post for a while, but there was always another priority on my to-do list. A couple of days ago I finished reading Americanah. I really…
Tweet Dearest esteemed colleagues, honourable members of ‘THE’ noble profession, Judges of our revered Courts, I write this intimate missive to you -one lawyer to another. You have an onerous task; TO CHANGE SOCIETY FOR THE BETTER. In fulfilling that…
There are two related issues in this matter. One that of Reynold Georges, is about evicting specifically 300 families from an area of Camp Acra & Adoquin with a view to evicting all 32,000 residents [6000 families] plus the fate of all remaining camps and this is where the focus needs to be. As Chanjem Leson write on their website, they have a plan for the housing of all camp Acra & Adoquin and a means for them to create their own income generation projects. The second issue is that of persecution of human rights lawyers and camp activists.
Tweet I first met Emmanuel Iduma in October of 2009 at an art criticism workshop in Lagos. We had different experiences – I as facilitator and he as participant. Not a reflection on others in the group but Iduma was…
Tweet ‘Killing Joy’ | DMKW The feminist is an affect alien, estranged by happiness. We can understand the negativity of the figure of the feminist killjoy much better if we read her through the lens of the history of happiness,…
Tweet Via Shadow and Act – The story of Saartjie Baartman [Parts 1 & 2]The film is in French with subtitles but unfortunately I havent had much success in watching it. I would love to hear from anyone who has…
Tweet I wrote my first book, Fairytales For Lost Children, a collection of short stories about the Somali gay and lesbian experience, in order to find my voice—literally. In 2002 I was diagnosed with psychosis and institutionalised in a mental…
Tweet From HOLAAFrica – Nompumelelo’s current research focused on women who are killed and their bodies merely lie ‘Decomposed Bitterly’ (a reference to the concept of Human Traffic). She says: ‘I use my body as subject matter. In the images…
Tweet Alice Walker disinvited from University of Michigan over ‘Israel comments’ | The Electronic Intifada World-renowned American author Alice Walker has been disinvited from giving a speech at the University of Michigan because a donor objects to her views on…
Tweet From Center for Constitutional Rights Today, in a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge ruled that persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is…
Tweet On May 17th I attended a public gathering of LGBTI activists and friends in a downtown hotel in Port-au-Prince as part of a weekend of IDAHO events. There were workshops, testimonies song and dance and a short play demonstrating…
Tweet From inkanyiso by by Lerato Dumse On the 1st of August 2013, a 17 year old self identifying transgender (youth) was one of the approximately 23 suicides reported daily in South Africa with 230 serious attempts. He hanged himself….
Tweet From Left of Black: A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica with Laurent Dubois and Deborah Thomas Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor…
Tweet Last Sunday I took a trip up to the highest point overlooking the city of Port-au-Prince and took a few photos – it wasn’t particularly inspiring until I saw this little girl in luminous green – I missed the…
Tweet CatchAFyah has a Call to Action directed at CARICOM across the Caribbean including organisations in Haiti [Kouraj, SeroVie] Jamaica, [CVC COIN, Jamaican’s For Justice, Quality of Citizenship Jamaica,] and Pan Caribbean – [CARIFLAGS, Caribbean DAWN] denouncing recent transphobic and…
Tweet Narratives From Queer Africa The dominant U.S. media narrative of queer identified Africans is one of victimization. We’ve heard the many stories of criminalized sexuality in various African nations (and sometimes we hear about the Western Evangelicals who have…
Tweet she used to fish on the Sombrero River and the adjoining creeks but then came the oil, and greed, and pollution and war, now most of the fish are dead, fat men and women fight over the overspill of…
Tweet Celebrate James Baldwin’s Birthday With Powerful Words – COLORLINES Author, activist and truth-teller James Baldwin was born today in 1924. To celebrate what would have been his 89th birthday, read this excerpt from his 1979 essay “If Black English…
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