Martha Tadesse
@marthinolly.bsky.social
Humanitarian photographer
| Feminism ጃስ | 🏳️🌈
Current project 📸: Queer African stories
| Feminism ጃስ | 🏳️🌈
Current project 📸: Queer African stories
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Martha Tadesse
@marthinolly.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I’ve been documenting the lives of queer Ethiopians & Eritreans, but finding a safe space to share these stories has been exhausting. I always have to turn replies off on IG, even though I’d love to engage more. And never even bothered to share on X. #BlueSky community, buckle up ✨
Happy to share the latest edition of a research project I worked on together with a colleague, focusing on digital violence in Ethiopia. (highlights the patterns of harassment, surveillance, outing, and stigma against queer individuals.)
genderit.org/feminist-tal...
genderit.org/feminist-tal...
genderit.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Happy to share the latest edition of a research project I worked on together with a colleague, focusing on digital violence in Ethiopia. (highlights the patterns of harassment, surveillance, outing, and stigma against queer individuals.)
genderit.org/feminist-tal...
genderit.org/feminist-tal...
Discounted registration is not compensation. If an organization truly value art as advocacy, healing, and change, they need to value the artists behind it with fair pay. Isn’t
compensation equity in practice? How do you ask for art projects and treat artists as customers?
compensation equity in practice? How do you ask for art projects and treat artists as customers?
🎨 Attention artists and collectives from around the world! Do you want your work showcased on the global stage at #WD2026 in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia? At the world’s largest gathering for gender equality, art will take center stage as a force for advocacy and change. 🗓️ Applications are open 👇
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Discounted registration is not compensation. If an organization truly value art as advocacy, healing, and change, they need to value the artists behind it with fair pay. Isn’t
compensation equity in practice? How do you ask for art projects and treat artists as customers?
compensation equity in practice? How do you ask for art projects and treat artists as customers?
I've been engaged in a research project for over a year with an incredible research partner I'm deeply grateful for. Our work focuses on online violence against queer individuals in Ethiopia. Our reflection has finally been published:
genderit.org/index.php/fe...
genderit.org/index.php/fe...
genderit.org
April 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I've been engaged in a research project for over a year with an incredible research partner I'm deeply grateful for. Our work focuses on online violence against queer individuals in Ethiopia. Our reflection has finally been published:
genderit.org/index.php/fe...
genderit.org/index.php/fe...
Picked my favorites 💐
✨ Tulips ✨ Dalton Farms, NJ
✨ Tulips ✨ Dalton Farms, NJ
April 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Picked my favorites 💐
✨ Tulips ✨ Dalton Farms, NJ
✨ Tulips ✨ Dalton Farms, NJ
Reposted by Martha Tadesse
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
First half marathon ✅
March 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
First half marathon ✅
I can’t believe I am actually running my first marathon this Sunday 🎧🏃🏾♀️✨
March 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I can’t believe I am actually running my first marathon this Sunday 🎧🏃🏾♀️✨
Why queer archive?
Because queer stories shall start with queerness not queerphobia.
Because queer stories shall start with queerness not queerphobia.
March 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Why queer archive?
Because queer stories shall start with queerness not queerphobia.
Because queer stories shall start with queerness not queerphobia.
Key dates on the evolution of anti homosexuality advocacy and online violence against LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia: 1/
March 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Key dates on the evolution of anti homosexuality advocacy and online violence against LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia: 1/
Reposted by Martha Tadesse
Fuck this fucking fascist fuckery.
March 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Fuck this fucking fascist fuckery.
In the face of relentless disinformation and the shattering weight of systemic denial, queer Africans continue to create safe spaces for themselves. Every quiet search for connection and every hidden gathering is an act of defiance — a refusal to be erased.
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In the face of relentless disinformation and the shattering weight of systemic denial, queer Africans continue to create safe spaces for themselves. Every quiet search for connection and every hidden gathering is an act of defiance — a refusal to be erased.
Reposted by Martha Tadesse
"Now or never" - @thecontinent.org.
Thread: While Europe was getting scolded at its own Munich Security Conference, African leaders were in Ethiopia for the annual African Union summit. As @simonallison.bsky.social explained, it was a critical summit, with Africa facing a new Trump led world order.
Thread: While Europe was getting scolded at its own Munich Security Conference, African leaders were in Ethiopia for the annual African Union summit. As @simonallison.bsky.social explained, it was a critical summit, with Africa facing a new Trump led world order.
February 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"Now or never" - @thecontinent.org.
Thread: While Europe was getting scolded at its own Munich Security Conference, African leaders were in Ethiopia for the annual African Union summit. As @simonallison.bsky.social explained, it was a critical summit, with Africa facing a new Trump led world order.
Thread: While Europe was getting scolded at its own Munich Security Conference, African leaders were in Ethiopia for the annual African Union summit. As @simonallison.bsky.social explained, it was a critical summit, with Africa facing a new Trump led world order.
Reposted by Martha Tadesse
Publishing this during black history month is DIABOLICAL. LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!! The NYT is so wild.
February 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Publishing this during black history month is DIABOLICAL. LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!! The NYT is so wild.
🤩 Ethiopian and Eritrean queer stories to the streets. To be seen. To be heard. A song of resistance ✨
Billboard from Exposure Photography Festival. (📸 Mitra Samavaki)
Calgary, Alberta
Billboard from Exposure Photography Festival. (📸 Mitra Samavaki)
Calgary, Alberta
February 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🤩 Ethiopian and Eritrean queer stories to the streets. To be seen. To be heard. A song of resistance ✨
Billboard from Exposure Photography Festival. (📸 Mitra Samavaki)
Calgary, Alberta
Billboard from Exposure Photography Festival. (📸 Mitra Samavaki)
Calgary, Alberta
My photography project Wonderfully Made, which highlights the Ethiopian and Eritrean queer community in the US, is featured in this year’s Exposure Photography Festival and opened last night ✨
If you are in Calgary don’t miss it - at Contemporary Calgary.
If you are in Calgary don’t miss it - at Contemporary Calgary.
February 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My photography project Wonderfully Made, which highlights the Ethiopian and Eritrean queer community in the US, is featured in this year’s Exposure Photography Festival and opened last night ✨
If you are in Calgary don’t miss it - at Contemporary Calgary.
If you are in Calgary don’t miss it - at Contemporary Calgary.
“I grew up in a very religious household where my parents often expressed that they didn’t believe the LGBTQ+ community deserved equal rights. Yet one of God’s commandments is “love your neighbor as yourself.” Why would you deny your neighbor the same rights you have? 1/
February 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“I grew up in a very religious household where my parents often expressed that they didn’t believe the LGBTQ+ community deserved equal rights. Yet one of God’s commandments is “love your neighbor as yourself.” Why would you deny your neighbor the same rights you have? 1/
“I can still see you if I close my eyes and focus, but that’s the only place you exist now. You’re a dream I had to let go of, even though I didn’t want to. Because more than anything, I wanted you to be safe and happy—and I can’t promise you that.”
open.substack.com/pub/soniawit...
open.substack.com/pub/soniawit...
A letter to the daughter I’ll never have
My love,
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“I can still see you if I close my eyes and focus, but that’s the only place you exist now. You’re a dream I had to let go of, even though I didn’t want to. Because more than anything, I wanted you to be safe and happy—and I can’t promise you that.”
open.substack.com/pub/soniawit...
open.substack.com/pub/soniawit...
Even decolonization would need to borrow decolonization just to decolonize academic spaces smh
January 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Even decolonization would need to borrow decolonization just to decolonize academic spaces smh
Okay I really like The Later Daters.
January 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Okay I really like The Later Daters.
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"I wish the war would end and we could return to our homes in peace."
A Christian Palestinian girl in Gaza wishes for peace on Christmas Day amid Israel's war, at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
A Christian Palestinian girl in Gaza wishes for peace on Christmas Day amid Israel's war, at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
December 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM
"I wish the war would end and we could return to our homes in peace."
A Christian Palestinian girl in Gaza wishes for peace on Christmas Day amid Israel's war, at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
A Christian Palestinian girl in Gaza wishes for peace on Christmas Day amid Israel's war, at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
✨ All of this!!
I see a lot of posts here on Blusky with "here is so nice, it's like the old Twitter" type of posts. Like the old Twitter was a kind place to be. The old Twitter ignored any abuse report we made, us minority people were left to receive abuse and death threats for years on without any protection.
December 16, 2024 at 8:24 PM
✨ All of this!!
“It should drive us all beyond rage that revolutionary imaginations almost always stop outside the home.
… unless we topple that tyrant in our minds, our bedrooms, and on our street corners – our revolution has not even begun.” ✨ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
… unless we topple that tyrant in our minds, our bedrooms, and on our street corners – our revolution has not even begun.” ✨ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What comes next for Syria’s women? A revolution that doesn’t free them is no revolution at all | Mona Eltahawy
The women celebrating the destruction of jails and dungeons will now be wondering why their own oppression cannot also be dismantled, says author Mona Eltahawy
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:58 PM
“It should drive us all beyond rage that revolutionary imaginations almost always stop outside the home.
… unless we topple that tyrant in our minds, our bedrooms, and on our street corners – our revolution has not even begun.” ✨ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
… unless we topple that tyrant in our minds, our bedrooms, and on our street corners – our revolution has not even begun.” ✨ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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😂😂😂😂 they are only homophobic if you are poor 😂😂😂
December 10, 2024 at 12:48 PM
😂😂😂😂 they are only homophobic if you are poor 😂😂😂