The new millennium ushered in many opportunities across the globe but for some, it also brought with it many woes. During the same period, the narrative of Zimbabweans escaping the decay in the country in […]
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Stop making me apologise for wearing a dress. Stop making me apologise for not wanting to use the mens toilet, because, I am not one. Stop making me apologise for peeing sitting down. Stop making […]
How can you ever begin to love another person, but you do not know how it feels like to be loved? How can you love another, but you have never felt love? To let your […]
Please let me pee. As I enter the bathroom, I see him. I look away, I try to hold it in. I go to the toilet and put the seat down I take off my pants […]
By Blaq From Zimbabwe Normal is boring so they say, i stand out, but my uniqueness judged If only they could see it through my eyes Sometimes it takes a while for […]
CALM AND COLLECTED … Zimbabwean Trans* activist Dzoe Ahmad As a teenager she had no friends, people labelled her a taboo and her father an ardent Muslim Sheikh condemned her as a shame. “I lost my […]
By Sumair a transgender man from Pakistan Sumair is currently in the asylum process in Sweden. Failing to cope with the dysphoria I face, my only refuge is pretending to be a eunuch instead of […]
PROUDLY TRANS… SAGA BECKER She looks calm and collected, clad in an all black outfit, she appears fierce and ready to take on the world with her radical spirit. The name Saga Becker, the Trans* revolution […]
On November 22 Zimbabweans woke up to a new era which saw the end of homophobic Robert Mugabe’s 37-year-old grip to power. Thousands of Zimbabweans thronged the streets in celebration amongst them where many LGBTI people who […]