Most Times, I Love the Darkness
By Munesu Most times, I love the darkness. Other times, I crave the pain. I love the feeling of bullets piercing through me As I stand in the cold rain. Lying over red-hot coals. […]
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Diary of a rural trans*sex worker
At the age of 19, soon after completing her advanced level studies, she moved to Harare the city of dreams. Her name is Ashley, and this is how her transition diary started. I didn’t […]
This is how to love a trans*body
Let’s talk with Eva Hello readers, hope you are all in good health, in this edition I will delve on love, focusing on how we can love our own bodies as transdiverse people, but also on […]
Still i shine…
Like a cunning thief, loneliness threatens to steal my joy. Even when the pain is choking and suffocating, my faith is my only hope. My God guides and grounds me. ln all my pain and sorrow, I […]
A refugee’s transphobic encounter in Sweden
I fled Tanzania owing to continued harassment and threats, so when I was attacked recently at an African party in Sweden, the horrific memories of my days of incessant torture back home raced through my head. […]
Love that i can not receive from outside
My femininity is very conservative. I rely on the existence of masculinity to exist. They say in sociology identities are relational. I am black in relation to white people. Queer people are queer in relation […]
Make peace with God, not the church
It is difficult to accept. But if your church is homophobic, biphobic or transphobic, it’s time to leave. You have to ask yourself for whose benefit do you attend? What are the hateful messages doing […]
Our existence, our resistance.
Nothing says resistance to me more than waking up, showing up and living your life in the face of the forces that say otherwise. Studying your oppressors, cunningly playing to their tune to a point […]
Lessons from dating a trans guy
I am a feminist lesbian. I have always said I am emotionally, spiritually physically, intellectually and sexually attracted to female-identifying persons. I used to be one of those people who believed in the butch or femme binaries. […]
REVOLUTIONARY. VOCAL AND VISIBLE.
The Queerstions and the revolution I was born and raised in the sprawling suburb of Mbare, Zimbabwe’s oldest township, notoriously know for all things bad. In my family my mother an ardent christian, ever so […]