One of the mechanisms currently in place to report online violations and TAV incidences; HER Internet together with DPI recently developed with an anonymous incident reporting tool that can be used to report these online and TAV cases.
Kuchu Times Editor
This biblical activism campaign will run for six (6) consecutive days with different themes each day and we shall be holding a dialogue on the 5th day and a short skit on the last(6th) day. All will be streaming on ADONAI INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES Facebook page.
All submissions selected will appear in the upcoming anthology, Passages: An Anthology Celebrating Black Queer Existence.
This collection seeks to address & examine a variety of topics such as: lineage/legacy, coming out, living authentically, intersectionality, identity, patriarchy, misogyny, mental/emotional health, aging, sex, intimacy & eroticism, silence, secrecy, shame, & vulnerability.
As a pre-op trans person in Uganda prior to my Sexual Reaffirmation Surgery, I struggled with the fact that my prostate heath and breast health where coded under different departments but how could I then as a woman, ask my doctor about my prostate health, when it is not part of the OBGYN list of services they provide, and if they did, they assumed it would be on a different body, a man’s body.
According to their Instagram page, Ghana Police Services arrested 22 LGBTIQ persons who were attending a birthday celebration. The Police has, through their Public Relations Officer, claimed that the event was a lesbian wedding although all attendees maintain that it was just a birthday party.
“Online violence largely manifests into denial of resources and opportunities for queer womxn. There is growing evidence of many ways queer womxn in our communities/ societies are violated and little is done to help,” Enid further shares.
The Kenyan Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, yesterday 24th March 2021, issued a directive ordering United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to shut down Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps.
Two years ago, he founded the Jinja based organization Lived Realities with the aim of creating a safe space for LGBTIQ persons as well as to raise awareness and change societal perceptions.
He also noted the three major goals of KSU which are; to ensure the financial independence of transgender female sex workers through economic empowerment projects, improvement in accessibility to health care services and advocacy for rights and freedoms of transgender female sex workers would not be possible without the guidance of KSU’s partners and allies
TEU also released a press statement highlighting the need for trans women, LBQ women and female sex workers’ right to decision-making in all areas of life, equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, and end all forms of violence against women in all their diversities and health-care services specially SRHR services that respond to their unique needs.