By Eyebags and Melanin I have stayed with myself longer than I have with anyone else. Longer than I have stayed with my good poetry, with my friends. Longer than I have stayed with my many loves and family. But some things have stayed longer than others. They stuck to me. No one warned me […]
By Anonymous Kenyan Tuesday 23rd August I was having a breakfast with aunt Wacuka and Tamara. My two large suitcases were at the door and Shani would be picking me up in about half an hour. I was in a pretty good mood and my aunt could tell. Aunt Wacuka was still inquiring about this […]
By Barbara Ward for KitschMix The opinions about stereotypes are all over the board. Some people think that stereotypes exist to keep us down, and some people think that stereotypes exist to make categorization easier. Personally, I feel that they can be used for your benefit or against it, depending on how they’re applied. Certainly, […]
By Tatenda A Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is a remarkable feat of engineering. It is capable of going from 0 – 100km/h in 2.5 seconds, which is shorter than it takes most people to inhale and about the same time it takes a keen eye to spot a ‘hottie’. The idea that a thing can […]
By Blacqueer You know that feeling you get when you’re walking down the road, dressed in your shirt and tie (or skinnies , sneakers and throwback cap) and you feel you’re being stared at by a bunch of men who are just seething at the gall you have to dare to be yourself in their presence. […]
By Anonymous It started innocently enough. Drinking games on a summer afternoon. A group of young ladies cackling about, men, education, boys, friends, fellas, holiday drunkenness and of course men. Hours passed and when the sun disappeared so did two within the group. The search for them ended in the furthest corner of the holiday […]
By Newly Anonymous It happened. What I swore would never happen to me because I am too strong, independent and funky (yes, that’s right, I used funky after the disco era). It happened to me despite living in a different city/ country. I got a ‘gay facebook ’ account. Let me take a minute to say […]
By Miles M I am a lesbian. Four words that took me a long time to say out loud. A part of me was ashamed that I was this person that people would hate, a person that my family would be embarrassed by, a deviant from the natural order. I was ashamed of being different […]
By Cosmic Yoruba Such a thing did not exist in the African jungle…or not When I read a paper by an African researcher that insinuates that Africans learnt homosexuality from Europeans (and/or Arabs), I do not go to my happy place where only thoughts of first love and first kisses rule. Rather I think about […]
By Dolly My heart swells with pride, with love, with joy and with strength. I now fearlessly identify as a member of the Barbadian LGBT Community. We might be a dot on the map but each one of us in a universe, a universe struggling for its place in this vast galaxy. The struggle of […]
