On November 8th, 2024, I lost a dear colleague, Charity Muturi, to suicide. The initial news reached me through social media, where a post reported an “unidentified woman” had died by suicide.…
In November 2024, I joined more than 1000 people from over 100 countries fighting for the liberation of LGBTIQ persons against discrimination and violence. At the 31st ILGA World Conference, I was…
African lesbians today face significant discrimination and violence at the intersection of homophobia and misogyny in deeply patriarchal societies, despite their crucial roles in feminist and queer organizing across the continent. Lesbians…
How can we describe a gathering of globally marginalised people that, paradoxically, is organised in a way that reflects neocolonial dynamics? This may be the case with ILGA 2024. Earlier in 2024,…
Convenings and forums are always layered with complexities, even when they are necessary and life-giving to queer people. On the one hand, they present an abundance of opportunities to network, forge partnerships,…
In the first week of 2025, Mark Zuckerberg has made a key announcement that Meta is overhauling its content moderation policies, getting rid of fact-checkers “to focus…on tackling illegal and high-severity violations,”…
We grieved together when Heaven Awot was killed by her mother’s landlord, Getnet Baye, in Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, in August 2023. A seven-year-old, raped and murdered in a country that…
On September 03, 2024, I attended an intense grief ceremony in Zurich; it was also my first time leaving my country Ghana as a transwoman. I was assigned male at birth (intersex),…
In addressing various issues African women and girls grapple with, gendered data is important. We know that in Africa, like in most of the world, women and girls are far from enjoying the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections as men and boys because of gendered inequalities that are historically rooted in colonial legacies and patriarchal systems.
In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), decades of brutal conflict and instability have intensified since January, plunging communities into turmoil. Thousands of people are fleeing as clashes intensify between the…