Part 2/15: Trans Pride, Trans day of Visibility & Tans Remembrance DayLocation: Broad Street Lagos (04/09/2019) It is argued that ancient Africa was in fact “trans”-Africa as there were no imposed lines between male and female before the colonial era people were just people in all their nongendered and “trans-cestrial” glory so much so the... Read More

Trans Day of Visibility, Trans pride, Trans Pride Protests, Trans Remembrance Day, Transphobia

May 17, 2021

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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: The LGBTQ+ resist from the church to the street

One thing that LGBTQ+ people can’t be said to be bad at, is resisting their oppression by whatever means available. Whether it is by naming things what they are in repeated instances of homophobic language usage on social media – to the point that few Nigerian internet users don’t know what ‘Homophobia’ entails – or... Read More

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Biphobia, Church, house of rainbow, LGBT+, LGBTQ Nigerians, misogyny, Reverend Father Jide Macaulay, Transphobia

June 29, 2020

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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 globally—to spotlight the progress Africa is making overall (though not fast enough) on the matter of LGBTQ rights. It was not the first piece I had written on the matter. I consider it the number-one... Read More

Non-binary Blog, Specials

Chude Jideonwo, Diversity Prize, Homophobia, LGBTQ rights, Martin Luther King Jr, non-binary, pride month, The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity, Transphobia

May 3, 2019

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Transphobia accusations aside; IAAF’s ruling against Caster Semanya answers a big problem about the legitimacy of elite sports

Over the weekend, the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) ruled that the International Association of Athletics Federations could demand that female athletes with Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) to go on hormone suppression medication to ensure their testorone are at normal levels at the time of competition. This ruling was in response to a... Read More

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Caster Semanya, IAAF, Leonard Chuene, misogyny, Transphobia

March 14, 2017

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The Thread: “Why would anyone with any kind of real ‘male privilege’ want to give that up to become a woman”?

Chimamanda’sinterview with Channel 4 news popped the lid on transphobia and other feminism issues. She has come back to clarify her statements , but minds are pretty much made up. Do see OluTimehin’s argument below: https://twitter.com/OhTimehin/status/841198235305803776 https://twitter.com/OhTimehin/status/841198612075954176 Interesting.

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The Thread: “Why would anyone with any kind of real ‘male privilege’ want to give that up to become a woman”?

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