In the last decade, there have been an emergent of fashion designers who aren’t just queer but have aligned their fashion vision with their identity, creating demystifying collections and criss-crossing their concepts and ideologies to represent the inscape of non-conformity,…
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Blackbird Books Publishes ‘Exhale: Queer African Erotic Fiction’—a Must-Read
South African publishing house Blackbird Books has, in collaboration with HOLAAfrica!, recently published Exhale: Queer African Erotic Fiction. The delightfully risqué anthology is a compilation of stories from queer African writers across the continent. Both fresh literary voices and established…
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Nigerian Judge Releases 47 Men Accused of Homosexuality Following Two-Year Case
According to Al Jazeera, Nigerian Judge Rilwan Aikawa has dismissed a controversial two-year long case of 47 men accused of homosexuality. This follows the prosecutor’s inability to provide sufficient evidence as well as state witnesses. The 47 men were arrested…
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Hermanus’s Acclaimed ‘Moffie’ is Probably Not for Black Queers
Since its Johannesburg premiere, I have been unsettled by Oliver Hermanus’s latest film, Moffie, loosely based on the titular autobiographical novel by Andre-Carl van der Merwe. The film, follows a teen conscript’s journey through the army into the brutal “Border…
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