Where is our anger? Where is our concern? Where is our worry? Where is our outrage? What are we doing, as a community and as a movement to correct the wrongs transpiring in Kakuma, the wrongs that are leaving our brothers and sisters in caskets? #FREEBLOCK13

I Freedom Uganda Network hosted partners and representatives of various member organizations to their 4th Annual General Meeting that took place on Friday 9th April 2021. The vent was themed SERVING IN THE FACE OF A PANDEMIC.

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.

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

According to the Global Network for Sex Work Projects, the day’s history goes back to 2001, when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a festival despite efforts from prohibitionist groups who tried to prevent it taking place by pressuring the government to revoke their permit. 

Just like its name, MEND INITIATIVE is out to mend both livelihoods and societal perspectives about LBTQ women. The organization whose  thematic areas of work are digital entrepreneurship, economic empowerment, labour and economic advocacy, vocational training and social wellness also offers scholarships to its beneficiaries.

We understand the euphoria football can bring the passion of being part of a community; shared experiences, the highs, and the lows, all ‘in it’ together. We believe no one should feel excluded from something which connects people in a way nothing else can