This lesbian visibility week, it is important to bring visibility to issues affecting lesbians that people ignore or know nothing of. In such a week when the whole world is looking at us , is when we should be loudest! Lesbians face Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Gender Based Violence and mental health issues. For us to decide to only speak on the positive during this week gives the world an impression that we are okay which makes our issues watered down when we share.
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We have come to learn that these crimes are intended to send messages to “those like you” and with this incident the message hit home. We are scared and angry. We are scared because we know the line between being any of us in that pool of blood is as thin as the patience we have for African judicial systems when it come to LGBT persons. We are angry because we are tired of being treated like we are not human beings and our lives do not matter,”
Kuchu Times Media Group is pleased to announce the 14th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy which will take place tomorrow, April 6, 2022. The event is attended by hundreds of diplomats, journalists and students each year, and aims to expose human rights abuses by the world’s worst regimes.
Kuchu Times Media Group joins the rest of the world to commemorate this powerful day and our message to the transgender community is, “You have always been visible to us!”
Our #WCW for this week Aisha-Ashe our correspondent from Kasese who works with Twilight Support Initiative. Ashe shared bits of her life with us below.
She envisions a Uganda where service provision is not at all affiliated to sexual orientation and gender identity, the state needs to recognize that before we are gay or transgender we are Ugandans with constitutional rights.
The struggle for equality and freedom has not been an easy one for women let alone LBQT Ugandans.
. “I found my family at the end of the white line, I do not know if I am addicted and how far I can go and still remain safe! All I know is 5 minutes after this white line and I am not the abomination my parents convinced me I was.” Aries (not real name) told KTMG
This is a good time for us to reflect on our spirituality as queer women.