Tag: non-binary
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 ...
#PrideMonth: Boihood; Personal Triumphs of Being in Community With Bois
By Alexandra Maduagwu Boi has a variety of meanings. For this piece, which relates to masculine women or women-aligned people, ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: 10 tweets we loved this week
Every week, we round up the best tweets revolving around the themes we explore on the blog. Here are the ...
This is what we should focus on in debates of queer people found in heterosexual relationships
In Nigeria, the topic of sexuality is usually met with deafening silence. Rarely does it enter into the realm of ...
See 4 other myths standing in the way of queer liberation
Homophobia has been passed down from generation to generation using unfounded claims and myths. Last week, we covered 5 myths ...
Why Nigerians needs to rethink their stance on homophobia
“They say I use pampers because I’m gay,” a gay man recounts to the Bisi Alimi Foundation in 2017. “They ...
Dating apps are no longer safe spaces for Queer Nigerians
In March 2020, a story of how Utali Ekwensu, a queer man was brutally killed in Nanka, Anambra sent shock ...
Believe it or not, police brutality against queer Nigerians is injustice to all
Unjustified humiliation, fear and suffering are the outcome of queer lives in Nigeria where the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA) ...
These 5 false myths stand in the way of queer liberation in Nigeria
Same-sex. Disgust. Nigerians. That’s the paragraph. Like oral tradition, homophobia has been passed down to even the youngest generation using ...
Conversion therapy creates more mental health problems than we hardly know
A.O was only 13 when she was first beaten with a broom by a pastor during a ‘conversion therapy’ session. ...
Once upon a time when Nigerian authors gave queer people a voice
“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen” ― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater More African countries and ...
Cross-dressers may be paving the way to a more sexuality-tolerant Nigeria
The conservative nature of the Nigerian society leaves little or no room for non-binary debates to get to a positive ...
Non-binary people deserve all the respect and here’s how to go about it
Contrary to popular belief, non-binary people are not an invention of the 21st century. They have always existed. Yes, some ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: 10 Tweets We Loved This Week
Every week, we round up the best tweets that inspired us, made us laugh, or made us go a-ha from ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: The Future is Fluid
Fluidity is the core of our spectacularly multiple experiences and existences. If life is a one-dimensional spectrum, its only extremes ...
Chude Jideonwo: This is why I am endowing a N1 million prize for difference and diversity in Nigeria
Last year, I wrote a piece on CNN during Pride Month—a month set aside to celebrate sexual and gender diversity ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: Queer Muslims Need Allies, Not Saviours
“We are able to have a safe space where we can discuss equality for LGBTQ+ Nigerians, which is a ...
Gabon has decriminalized homosexuality
In an unprecedented move for Gabon, Gabonese lawmakers in the country’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to decriminalise ...
On Passing: Bobrisky and the role of trans people in queer liberation
In January 2017, I began to run the Sexuality Blog on YNaija. The premise was simple: YNaija was pivoting towards ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: ‘Bearded Mouth’ by CS Lozie
In primary school, I had this teacher. I don’t remember her name but if you ask me to close my ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: ‘Warmer Maths’ by Dare Falowo
1 The first skill we often learn to cultivate in the middle of chaos is the ability to shapeshift. To ...
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Romeo Oriogun, in conversation with Logan February (via Zoom)
Logan February Hey Romeo! Thank you for agreeing to do this, and thank you for taking the time. I really ...
On Queer Privilege and Music in Sacrament of Bodies: Romeo Oriogun, in conversation with Logan February
(The following is an excerpt from a Zoom conversation between Nigerian poets, Oriogun and February, from Iowa, USA, and Lagos, ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: In conversation with Stephen Tayo
As a multidisciplinary artist working out of Nigeria, it has taken three short years for visual artist, Stephen Tayo to ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: In conversation with Dandelion Eghe Eghosa
Dandelion Eghosa is a non-binary visual artist who works out of Africa and explores queer themes through multi-media art that ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: The Flat: On the power of Queer friendships
1. I met J. in first year, A. in third year, ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: All we know about LGBTQ history in Nigeria
LEGISLATION AND CRIMINALIZATION OF LGBT LIFESTYLES IN NIGERIA Editor
#YNaijaNonBinary: Feminism from the margins
A few months ago, at a commemorative event for the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Conference, I introduced myself to ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: A glossary of relevant queer related terms
Ally – A person who supports and advocates for LGBTQ rights and equality. This person is usually cisgender and heterosexual. ...
#YNaijaNonBinary: ‘There is Hope’, A Note from the Guest Editor, Logan February
For much of our recent past, the year 2020 was held as a symbol of futurism in collective imagination. We ...
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