On March 26, 2026, after an executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released a 10-page policy: “Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.” This policy…
Ghana holds a key symbolic and political role in Pan-African unity and liberation. From the historic African unity conferences of the 1950s and 1960s to its continued symbolic weight in global Black…
Two days after the passing of the new, stringent anti-queer law in Senegal, 17-year-old Malick Ndiaye was killed. Ndiaye, a drummer, was approached by a group of teenagers between 13 and 15…
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Au Sénégal, le débat autour des droits des personnes LGBTQ a franchi un nouveau seuil avec l’adoption par l’Assemblée nationale d’une loi visant à durcir la criminalisation de l’homosexualité. Le texte a…
On February 14, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addressed the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union during the 39th General Assembly. In her speech, Meloni acknowledged that…
In Senegal, the debate surrounding the rights of LGBTQ persons has reached a new threshold with the announcement of a bill aimed at tightening the criminalisation of homosexuality, including prison sentences for…
In 1810, a young woman from the Eastern Cape, South Africa, was brought to London by colonial…, put on display in a cage, and exhibited under the racially charged moniker ‘Hottentot Venus’.…
There is a quiet kind of violence that states are particularly good at. It does not arrive with spectacle. It comes through paperwork. Through silence. Through the slow, bureaucratic unmaking of a…
It was the end of 2025, that in-between stretch of the year when offices begin to wind down, group chats fill with “last meetings,” and people speak as though life will slow…