By Ludo Chalashika An hour past the sunrise and I decided, mind woke, to freeze time, Eyes still shut and a whisper says, “Do you want to live today?” Thirty minutes past the hour and poetry wanted to whisper me out of bed, again. I whine, “last night you interrupted my sleep”, again. “Write, […]
By Anon I have felt compelled to write this after I have heard the phrase ‘when I visit you I want you to find me a lesbian’ one too many times. You want me to find you lesbian when you visit? I’m sorry what? Would you also like to me too find you a good quote for […]
By Kagure Mugo You try to tell her about Foucault and “theories of identity,” but she asks if Foucault is your husband. Suddenly all those hours spent in a lecture hall doing gender courses seem powerless against the sheer titanium force that is the gates of her mind, a mind tempered by 80-plus years of […]
‘Like it or not, your dick will never compare to a good lick.’ This is the tag line that comes with a new app called Lickster, a cunnilingus training app available on Google Play. The developers describe Lickster as ‘a revolutionary new training game that will make you a cunnilingus pro lickety-split’. The description on […]
By Joyfrida Anindo They say I am not natural, It’s the pink line beneath my lash, The yellow hue around my eye, The purple plate on my lip, Reflecting the sun when I smile. They say I am not natural, It’s the kinky curl of my locks, The frilly flow of my weave, The straight […]
What are the words you do not have yet? [ Or ‘for what do you not have the words yet?] What do you need to say? [ List as many things as necessary] What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of […]
Femme invisibility: the idea that, as a feminine presenting woman, you are not really a queer/lesbian unless you are knuckle deep in another woman at that very moment. The notion stems from the idea that you must ‘look a certain way’, and one must constantly prove their queerness. That you need to have the funky […]
A short film about being a lesbian in homophobic Zimbabwe. Based on a poem by Tinashe Wakapila. It features a cast of six women, five of whom are LGBT asylum claimants in U.K. Read original poem the movie is based on here. *leave a comment on the post, you can write it under a different name and […]
By Kagure Mugo/@tiffmugo Sex toys. Asking about them in polite society usually causes raised eyebrows and mumbles about their inappropriateness, but you don’t need to be a private detective to discover that they’re bought, sold and used almost anywhere you care to look on the continent. At the same time though, the sale of sex […]
By MampuruLebo I fell into a helix of self-sacrifice, thinking it to be self-celebration I draped my sensual prowess into a pretty bow and sent myself into the world For a fleeting moment I felt the eminence of sexual prowess But Instead of learning to tender to its magic and speak its sweet language I […]
