Category: Non-binary Blog
NIGERIA’s FIRST EVER (MONTH-LONG) LGBTQ+ PRIDE PROTESTS (OF MANY TO COME)
Part 3/15: Welcome to pride 2019 The origin of the pride flags, the Colours and the meaning behind them. Location: ...
NIGERIA’s FIRST EVER (MONTH-LONG) TRANS PRIDE PROTESTS (OF MANY TO COME)
Part 2/15: Trans Pride, Trans day of Visibility & Tans Remembrance DayLocation: Broad Street Lagos (04/09/2019) It is argued that ...
NIGERIA’s FIRST EVER (MONTH-LONG) BISEXUAL PRIDE PROTESTS (OF MANY TO COME)
Part 1/15: Bi Pride/Bi Visibility Day, Bisexual Awareness Week, Pansexual Pride DayLocation: Abuja City Gate (01/09/2019) Welcome to pride 2019, ...
In worship of the Mother Goddess; Yemoja Festival 2021
Yemoja is the Yoruba Orisha or Goddess of the living Ocean, considered the Mother of All. She is the source ...
VIS social impact calls on African script writers to apply
VIS Social Impact, the new studio division of ViacomCBS International Studios dedicated to the development of ground-breaking social impact-driven content, has opened ...
Paternity leave is a new reality in Nigeria | Here are the benefits if done right
After years of clamour by advocates for Nigeria to avail new fathers of paid paternity leave, it appears some headway ...
#ADHDAwarenessMonth | What you need to know
ADHD Awareness Month is celebrated every October, with events and activities happening around the world, yet for one of the ...
Religious conversion is all fun and games unless you are a woman
For a majority of religious people, life’s ultimate goal is the reward they are promised in an afterlife. Heaven, Paradise, ...
Down The Memory Lane: A journey of acceptance
I The first time I thought queer lives matter, I am standing at the boarding students’ dining hall with some ...
#BisexualPrideDay: The dummies guide to understanding that biphobia is not human
In a country where pride in anything outside of the straight and narrow is heavily frowned upon, and bisexuality is ...
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay: Attempted suicide is still a crime in Nigeria when our hope lies in its decriminalisation
‘Suicide is not an option.’ Reads a very colourful sign at the entrances of a Non-Governmental Organisation in Kaduna, whose ...
African Spirituality winning over every other belief is the main appeal of ‘My Village People’
For most entertainment consumers – we know only of our Nigerian reality understandably, waking up to the news of a ...
#PrideMonth: Long distance Relationships as an Aesthetic of Queer Love
By Damilola Aremo A few months ago, someone had asked a question on Twitter. It was one of those question-type ...
Kawajo: The immortal transwoman who changed Kano forever
It isn’t so bizarre – because the flow of energy goes whatever way it just does – that someone will ...
#EndSARS: 2 Queer men and 1 straight man unravel where we went wrong
There are events too traumatic even for the human memory – its evolved glory notwithstanding – to hold in a ...
Mannequins and erections | An in-depth view of the Hisbah mannequin ban in Kano
It is a given, that you can’t help but roll your eyes when you read a headline like, ‘Kano Hisbah ...
This is the Northern gambit you didn’t know about regarding enforcing Shari’ah
Unless you have a core of steel, shock is a natural reaction to news items like the arrest for blasphemy ...
What happens when 2 gay and 3 straight men walk into a bar?
If you are going by all the horrible stories of violence against queer bodies across the world – from the ...
See something, say something | Things we can do as individuals to stop workplace sexual harassment
If you are like a majority of people, the statement, “I am delighted upon reviewing this 12-page policy document to ...
#InternationalDayOfNonbinaryPeople: “I am a boy who is a boy, a girl, and fully human” | Reflection on nonbinary identity
“There is something both liberating and scary about this nonbinary gender identity,” I said to a dear friend last month. ...
South West Governors’ Forum may get us one step towards ending child marriage
There is a dangerous contradictory of the Nigerian constitution that has been a thorn in the side of all right-thinking ...
The proposed constitutional amendment by Southwest Governors is the real deal for gender inclusion
To be able to say, “Something good is coming from the stable of Nigeria’s political class,” and mean it is ...
For Non-Binary Awareness Week, this commitment should be your starting point
The week starting the Sunday or Monday preceding 14 July every year since 2012 is celebrated globally as non-binary awareness ...
Borno IDP Camps: Could Governor Zulum be misplacing the difference between ‘prostitution’ and rape?
On Wednesday, July 7 2021, Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, lamented that prostitution is on the ...
Male rape survivors would get help but homophobia wouldn’t allow it
#TriggerWarning; Rape. Every year, millions of boys and girls globally suffer sexual violence. The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) ...
5 Things to do when you get a panic attack
If you can picture this, chances are you have been there before – even if you didn’t have the words ...
What non-humanist Nigerians think of humanism
In writing about World Humanist Day – for which we interviewed Activist and Member, Board of Directors Humanist Association of ...
Tackling workplace sexual harassment is far easier for organisations than some ad campaigns
Anna’s* career path has been dotted with job switches since she finished NYSC in 2018, for reasons completely unrelated to ...
Where “Out and Proud” does not have to be bare-faced
An acquaintance made a passing remark that started a conversation on whether we can call a public declaration of who ...
Ableist language could be eroding the wins of Nigerians Living with Disabilities
There are many ways the systemic exclusion and oppression of people living with disabilities manifest in everyday life. It is ...
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YMonitor
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Party Jollof
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- An Isiagu Wedding, Sign us up
- This Groom’s epic moves to his Trad Engagement will make you smile
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- More photos from Actor Gideon Okeke and fiancée, Chidera’s prewedding session