New post! Amisa Rashid speaks about healing and decolonising mental health africanfeminism.com/healing-a-fe...

Analysis by Senegalese feminist journalist on once renowned scholar of Islam Tariq Ramadan who was convicted of Rape in Switzerland in 2024 and faces separate charges in France being welcomed in #Senegal by religious authorities.
FATOU WARKHA speaks about silencing

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Ghana | In a rising tide of fascism, queer feminist organisers resist hate with care, solidarity, and grit. Riba spotlights how Ghana’s LGBTQ+ movement fights for survival and dignity—because love is not a crime, and existing shouldn't need permission.

How are African queer feminist organiser keeping up with the threats to their rights in the current fascist environment? Riba-writes about Ghana and the LGBTIQ struggle for rights and sustenance.
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Join us next week for the launch of Library of perspectives.
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The fact that Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the cusp of war yet again is a reminder that eventually war can become so seeded in the logic of a state that it becomes its raison d’être. A cabal of old men who have become so rooted in warfare that they cannot even comprehend peace.

South African writer Sarita Ranchod shares with us the books that are keeping her awake.

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“Your forepeople cut and shaped the stolen stone. Your forepeople placed stone on stone on stone on stone to make this edifice. Their skin sloughed off on stone after stone. Their blood and scabs secured the placing.”-Keguro: (Black) Rooms: Black (Grounds).

You are announced as the first in the room, as shattering barriers, as cracking ceilings, as shaking foundations, as unsettling earth. You are earthquake and gale, hurricane and tornado. A weather event. A natural disaster. A catastrophe.The force that remakes the room.
You smile at the lie.-Keguro

New post! FR
Analysis of queer rights in French speaking Africa.

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Analysis of LGBTIQ struggle and strength in French speaking Africa. The continue challenging social institutional violence the face of increased criminalization.

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Oluwatobiloba Ayodele a co-dreamer of Liberation Alliance Africa reflects on her time at AWID Forum and how philanthropy can facilitate better connections with dignity at the center.
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This man does not know how tariffs work.

Eastern DRC, both the land and the people have got to be exhausted of the whole world's insistence that their death, pain, and extraction are essential for everyone’s well-being but the people of the land. The country has all of us complicit 😭 From African looters like Rwanda and Uganda to Asia, US

Amisa reflects on the work and life Charity Muturi and Kenya recent decriminalisation of suicide

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In our new post Afrika. reflects on marginalisation of African lesbians in both queer and women's rights /mainstream feminist movements on the continent and urges bold changes in the way both movements organise.
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"The pressing question remains: How can we gather as activists in a way that is ethical, supports grassroots mobilisation, fosters international solidarity, and enables cross-continental conferencing—without exploiting and reinforcing colonial power imbalances?"
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Greetings! We start the year with African Feminist Takes featuring reflections from ILGA World Conference.

Mamello Sejake urges for a shift in power to address these elitist and exclusionary spaces at a time of great push back.

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