dr. anima adjepong
@animaadjepong
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author of Afropolitan Projects (UNC Press, 2021) | queer african feminist. i write about diaspora, culture, sport, and identity. #blacklivesmatter
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If you cite my work, I use they/them pronouns.
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Today, I tendered my resignation to Princeton University's Every Voice steering committee, which is planning the LGBTQ+ alumni conference. I do this in solidarity with students, faculty, and staff demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. I do not consent to pinkwashing.
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Worth (re)visiting today: The “Deviant” African Genders That Colonialism Condemned - JSTOR Daily
Alarmed by the violent rhetoric from some cis black women concerning transwomen. Binary gender has never favored black life.
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The media instigates hate by asking if queer people deserve to live. The question is violent, folks respond out of fear. This man refused to be afraid and spoke his truth. Everyone deserves to live. The reporter did not expect that because he came prepared to extend violence.
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My immediate reaction to news about the Ford Foundation Fellowship (I got the predoc in 2014) is that these foundations, like so many others, are abandoning higher education. It’s dire times. The very long letter said a whole lot of nothing.
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Feeling sad for all the queer Ghanaian children, those in school, anxiously watching as the state and media condemn them, knowing they can’t confide in their parents, teachers, or any other adults in their lives. And now the spaces where they could go are further threatened.
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Yesterday the board of trustees voted to approve my tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at
@uofcincy
. It is meaningful for me to share this news. I am a trans African immigrant studying and writing about Ghanaian cultural politics and African queerness in the US academy.
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A western obsession with binary gender reduces human biodiversity to men and women. Surgery is imposed on people who’s natural bodies do not conform to social norms. Those of us whose socialization refuses the binary are also often forced into surgeries to fit social expectations
The challenges of Intersex persons in Ghana.
Now unemployed, she tells
@mx24gh
how authorities cut short her dream to play for Ghana's women national team, the Black Queens, after they found out that she is intersex.
Full Interview Video: 🔗
#Pride2021
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As someone whose primary school curriculum included the idea that colonialism benefited the nation, I am intimately familiar with the consequences of this discourse re slavery. The goal is to produce a populace so far disconnected from itself they long for days of colonial rule.
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Later on I will have more eloquent words but for now, aaah! My book is in my hands and it’s real and whoa, what a beauty. A completely unexpected surprised package from
@Lucas_Church
. I can’t wait for others to receive it and share in this beautiful project with me
#UNCPFallBooks
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Wonderful to see consequences for inciting and celebrating homophobia. But I want to remind queer Ghanaians that we have queer kin in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, etc. How can we be in solidarity with them when we reproduce US homonationalist claims?
Stay away from progressive funding and scholarships if you’re a homophobe. Apply to Iran, Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan since you love oppression so bad.
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It was my junior year and Toni Morrison came around for some creative writing atelier.
I told her a joke. She threw her head back and laughed so heartily. It made me feel special. As if I'd made god herself laugh.
I'll always remember that feeling. Thank you.
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Still looking for someone to subtitle this for me. You must understand the language and know how to insert close captions on video. Worth noting that I am a native speaker of the language. DM me with your rate.
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Perhaps as more saviors abandon us, more of us will be motivated to join in the work being done to abolish the university as it currently exists and transform it into something else, something generative.
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In 2020, I gave a book talk discussing gentrification in Accra. The US urban design scholars told me I can’t name the process of gentrification as such in Africa. It had to be something else. But Accra is being gentrified and it’s been going on for a long time
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In Ghana, the church builds a prison, then collaborated with the state to create laws that fill those prisons, and then claims an interest in morality and the protection of families. Queer people are the most visible targets, but we are all in danger.
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Fascinated by this exchange. Homophobes hype up violence against queer people and expect to face no consequences. When queers fight back, all of a sudden, folks who are previously quiet step up to say we are mean bullies. Yet they say nothing about abuse directed at queera.
It’s unfortunate that
@MTwumz_
lives in a Lgbtq safe country,but is actually homophobic and a danger to homosexuals in Scotland
@UKGovScotland
@UKGovWales
@USEmbassyGhana
please look into this and do protect queer lgbtq,emails will soon follow
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US cultural norms around hypo descent are still strange to my African mind. I’ve also learned from trans* scholarship to move away from the language of “passing” to “recognized as” and I wonder how such thinking will help some of the contentious convos we have about blackness
Speaking of whether or not Ruth Negga can "pass" in
@Netflix
's PASSING film, Ebony magazine rolled out a quiz in April 1952 that asked, "WHICH ONE IS NEGRO? WHICH IS WHITE?"
How many can you guess correctly? (And yes, I have the answer key lol).
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In the last few days, Ghana Police have arrested 21 people on the charges of unlawful assembly, simply because they are queer. The police report described educational materials as if they were weapons of mass destruction and warned against "misbehavior."
#ReleaseThe21
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It is mind-boggling to me to read these so called progressive voices condemning critiques and protest of the ongoing Israeli-state led genocide. The position that any protest “ignores” or dismisses the loss of Israeli life is intellectually dishonest. 1/6
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Reporter insists: what if a man want you for a lover? Me? The man asks. I’m not that attractive but if someone likes me good for them. Reporter can’t accept this. What of your daughter? What if she grows up to be a lesbian? If that’s what makes her happy, I support her. Reporter:
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In the past academic year, I have received several threatening emails at work. Sometimes the harassers create a new email account, sometimes they seem to be signing their actual names. Always, they are threatening me simply because I am a gender studies professor.
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Shocked to read from
@jack
that Ghana is a champion of free speech when just last month a representative from
@Graphicgh
told me they feared sanctions from
@NAkufoAddo
’s government for printing a
@smajoritygh
ad in support of LGBT Ghanaians. A bold lie.
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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This is ridiculous. There is no reason why after two weeks in prison, the judge still refuses to make a decision and is holding people in prison on literally no charges.
Update on
#ReleaseThe21
Based on the defense submissions today, the circuit court in Ho will determine on Tuesday 7th June 2021 to either grant or deny bail.
#FreeTheHo21
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Foh Amoaning WROTE the bill. It is so important to name this explicitly. A private citizen wrote a bill that is currently being discussed in parliament as the voice of the people. In his testimony right now, he is showing exactly how he WROTE the bill.
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Adichie's Times editorial on the Nigerian gov murdering her citizens is good. It is also curious for what it omits - police violence against women who "look like prostitutes" and against folks who "look like a lesbian" or "look like a gay."
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I shared my oped in The Guardian with my mother, who appreciated how eye-opening it was. But she wanted to know, “are you not afraid to say such things?” I response I shared with her Audre Lorde’s reminder that our silences will not protect us.
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I’m reading a lot into this short tweet and hoping that the tailor comes through on my next trip to Accra. But I don’t want to be misidentified as wearing costume when I’m just wearing clothes 🙃
Looks like I've been dressing like it's the Black Panther premiere for the past decade. *shrugs*
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He said creator made us all and everyone is exactly how they should be. Some people in creation are gay. The reporter, refusing to accept his answer, asks: won’t they bring diseases? He says, there are already diseases. It has nothing to do w/ queers.
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I reviewed Caster Semenya's memoir
@blkagendareport
, thinking through colonial gender ideologies, bio-logics, intersex and trans inclusion in sports. Read my review here and get your copy of Race to by myself. It's a good read.
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“An anxiety that historians discern in the historical record is how uncomfortable European travellers, and later anthropological accounts, were with the idea that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered.”
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While the Ford fellowship made my life easier by paying my tuition, offering me a stipend, and providing me with a very generous network of fellows (I have no ambivalence about my social capital), I think the fellowship program also perpetuated scarcity within higher ed.
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I’ve been thinking about how Ghana’s independence was a speech act. Someone stood and declared the nation free from colonial rule. Speech acts are powerful and have material implications. As folks celebrate, spare a word for freedom for other others and act towards it too.
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The MoF is not urging the president to withhold assent to the bill. The recommendation is to defer his assent while the state figures out financial collaborations with “conservative” countries to keep the country’s economy going. No state institution is concerned with queer life.
Ghana's Ministry of Finance has urged President Akufo-Addo
@NAkufoAddo
not to assent to the anti-LGBTQ Bill
💢 Highlights negative impact of the passage and the implementation of the 'Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024', aka anti-LGBTQI Bill, on the economy
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Alarmed this morning to learn about the bill passed in Uganda, which encourages rape and criminalizes queer people and sex workers. The violent Christian heterosexual patriarchy is hard at work out here. We need to band together to create the world we want.
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Ghana is a wonderful place to visit. Unless you’re queer and/or advocate in any way for the dignified humanity of queer Ghanaians. Save your tourism 💵 please.
Ghana Tourism Authority has launched new Open-Top buses to boost domestic Tourism.
#ExperienceGhana
#TV3GH
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MLK, Jr said: “Ghana has something to say to us. It says to us first, that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it.”
I echo these words to comrades in the fight for queer liberation in Ghana. We fight on
#ReleaseAllThe21
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Sat to read the whole ASR response slowly. It is so aggressive, violent, and intellectually dishonest. It’s also got me thinking about this article about white epistemological violence
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Happy holidays to all queer Ghanaians. Although too many families are afraid to lovingly and publicly embrace their queer kin, we
@smajoritygh
know that another world is possible. Sending love and seasons greetings to all
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
As you already know, we have planned Pride month around weekly themes.
This week we will be sharing with you narratives about family acceptance in the Ghanaian LGBT+ community.
👇🏿
More coming...
#GhPride2021
#ReleaseAllThe21
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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This is a bit unfair. The impact of inflation is felt across class positions in the country. There are several avenues in which these discussions are had to address the ways in which Ghanaians are suffering and this is only one example. 1/6
Accra ppl are not serious. Even when they want to draw attention to the dire economic conditions in the country, they go speak to Afropolitan wannabes.
They could've gone to any trotro station to ask these questions but they chose to center the 1st world problems of the elites
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On Thursday I will be in conversation with folks at the Contemporary ethnography and inequality workshop at Harvard to discuss my book. All are welcome to join. 12PM EST ().
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Contrary to whatever the hell it is that TERFS claim, transmasculinity is used to harm people labeled women, despite their gender. Sports are a site where gender expansive people labeled women are subject to much disciplining. Semenya is the most prominent and popular example 1/x
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My tenure in higher ed has largely been in elite institutions and networks - Ivies and so-called Public Ivies with exclusive fellowships. This position shields you from some of the worst ravages of the neoliberal university, and also perpetuates the problems of higher ed
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heartbroken as I leave Accra. At the airport, i am treated like a bandit. My passport is perused and perused and perused. My luggage is scrutinized. They are seeking evidence of a crime. I’ve done nothing. And I can’t make sense of this escalation of violence from parliament.
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Ghanaian media’s breathless infatuation with pedigree is overlooking all the other memos submitted against this bill. Right now the story seems as if it’s only these profs, lawyers, and legendary activists who have refused the bill.
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It was sweet to have that money in grad school. Money begets money so that fellowship continued to position me well, including with the community of scholars I was able to build through the conferences. But I also had an ambivalent relationship to the fellowship program.
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this week
@Lucas_Church
sent me a sneak peak of the cover for my forthcoming book with
@uncpress
. It's so beautiful and I can't wait for you all to read it starting this fall.
Many thanks to
@artbyadebisi
for allowing me to use her brilliant piece to adorn this book.
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A few folks have been asking where to get the book. Answer is wherever books are sold! Get yours now in anticipation of a virtual launch in December. Details soon.
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for anyone interested, my article "Invading ethnography," which examines the colonial imperatives of ethnographic methods and discusses how those of us queered and racialized by the method can engage it, is currently freely available (no paywall!) here -
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Next week, April 12 at 11AM PST / 2PM EST / 6PM GMT I'll be hosting a roundtable conversation between 4 amazing thinkers on blackqueer genders across space and time. use this link to attend:
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As a gift to myself for earning tenure, I bought an 8-inch Dobsonian telescope. On cloudless nights, it offers me endless pleasure. 🔭😈🌓
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The claim that queer life is not worthy of human dignity leads to violence. We saw this in the circulating video of an assault against a Ghanaian man accused of being gay. When people are deemed less human, less worthy of life, those who believe this lie find an excuse to harm us
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My masters thesis was dedicated to bell hooks, for teaching me how to not let the terrorists win. Today, I am revisiting “representing whiteness in the black imagination,” which was foundational to my journey as a whiteness scholar. Read it here
(1/2)
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It was truly beautiful to be able to facilitate the vigil for
@YaaAsantewaaBa
today. Still hard to believe that it’s true but I’m thankful for the beautiful outpouring of words in her memory. She left an indelible mark on all of us
#ShakiaForever
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I’ve been impressed and encouraged by the recent
@Ghfixthecountry
protests. It would be great to see further solidarity with
@LGBTRightsGhana
,
@RightifyGhana
and others to protest the passing of that bill, which is still being used to harass us. We’re all in this together.
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Once colonialism is embedded in the people as a positive, it’s lingering effects, including economic policies that under-develop the nation and bring about social and political suffering are deemed a failing of the African peoples, and not the political structure of colonialism.
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Over the weekend, Accra police arrested and detained 215 people in “efforts to fight violent crimes…”Newspaper reports describe this fishing expedition as a good thing. Beloved, it is not a good thing. This is state terrorism that ignores the root problem
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Fantastic news coming out of Ho today. It’s not over yet, people. We still need to demand that prosecutors dropped these baseless charges. While our comrades work to take care of the newly released activists, it is time for us to amp up pressure and demand charges be dropped
📋Update on
#ReleaseThe21
Ho 21 Granted Bail After 22 Days in Police Custody
The 21 human rights defenders & participants of a community empowerment activity, whom journalists teamed up with the police to arrest on May 20, have been granted bail
More soon
#JusticeForTheHo21
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The bill’s preamble is very intentional about suppressing dissent and making claims about what most Ghanaians want with regard to legislating gender and sexuality. But I’d venture that *most Ghanaians* want a safe country that respects the integrity and diversity of all people.
Ghana: anti-gay bill proposing 10-year prison sentences sparks outrage
Bill could mean 10 years in prison for LGBTQ+ people and those who support their rights
#KillTheBill
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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A fallacy generally accepted as truth is that diasporic Black people are descended from slaves and Africans are not. The more complicated truth is that some enslaved Africans (e.g. the Tabom) returned to the continent and their descendants live in African countries.
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Listening to a discussion about homophobia and its connections to the Ghanaian economy and I am distressed by the idea that homophobia is bad because queer people are workers who contribute to an economy that exploits the local population and directs money to a wealthy few.
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The lies and misinformation being spewed in Ghana's parliament right now... The claim that the majority of Ghanaians support a bill that is so anti-life in a country where people can't afford rice, oil, or anti-malarial meds but want to direct resources to harm their compatriots
Anti-LGBTQI Bill: Motion moved and supported for the Second Reading of the anti-LGBTQ Bill in the Parliament of Ghana.
This was followed by the reading of the report by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee thàt worked on the Bill - including the public hearing, and others
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Our politics must be smart, transnational, and in solidarity with queer people everywhere. We must refuse to reproduce and empower logics of homonationalism and carceral immigration systems.
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Great thread on the construction of Africa we are asked to wade through in order to do our work as African scholars. The persistence of colonial gatekeepers in the production of knowledge about ourselves.
The "Africa" of the Harvard/Comaroff case is ... interesting: One white man is the foremost expert on Africa. An African and African American Studies Department dominated by whites and with very few Africans. Africa as the place will you will be raped....
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Neither the US nor the UK are bastions of progressive queer politics. In those countries that folks name as safe for homophobes, just as in Ghana, folks are fighting hard to create safer conditions for queer life. Why encourage queer antagonistic people to go there?
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My article on gender expansive African athletes, sportswomen, and black diaspora received honorable mention for best article award
@QueerAfrStudies
. Honored!
#ASA2021
•
@animaadjepong
, for “Voetsek! Get[ting] lost: African sportswomen in ‘the sporting black diaspora” which appeared in International Review for the Sociology of Sport
()
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As I was listening to
#1619Project
podcast, it occurred to me that if they were to listen, white Americans will likely feel ashamed of their history where they’ve been indoctrinated with pride. Shame is a difficult emotion and we often don’t know how to deal with it. 🧵/1
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Great🧵about how Ghanaians and other Africans in diaspora are contributing to anti queer efforts at home and abroad. Realizing the need to counter these efforts is why right now
@smajoritygh
is channeling energy towards recruiting Ghanaians in the US to our work of queer freedom.
I got invited to a salon last night for Black women who have, or are considering moving to Lisbon. They have roots all over the diaspora. I learned that Steve Bannon has been running around Africa and Europe: 1) helping to stoke/fund anti LGBTQ laws in Uganda, Ghana and Kenya
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Last fall I planted a maple tree in my backyard. This spring, I have a new bird neighbor, diligently building a nest in that tree. This is a thread about heteronormativity.
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It is encouraging to see a coordinated transnational resistance by Ghanaians in the diaspora to Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill. When I founded
@smajoritygh
3 years ago, I hoped for exactly this sort of thing and my heart wells to see it now.
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We
@smajoritygh
tried to place the advert below in support of queer and trans Ghanaians in the
@Graphicgh
, Ghana’s paper of record but were barred.
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
#silentmajoritygh
#unequalfreedom
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
, Ghana’s former President describes women as made for men’s sexual pleasure and blames them for children’s “social vices” such as queer sexuality. A reminder that homophobia and patriarchy are tandem processes that feminists everywhere must resist
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Ghana, whose motto is freedom and justice, marks 64 years of independence. Yet queer Ghanaians are unfree and experience injustice. This is
#unequalfreedom
and we reject government’s efforts to legalize our dehumanization.
#GhanaIndependenceDay
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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I see efforts to classify slavery as a benefit to Black Americans similarly. The goal is to discount the violence of slavery & its ongoing effects, and instead suggest that slavery’s afterlife is the fault of Black people who haven’t internalized the benefits of being enslaved.
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A few times now, I’ve seen the ɔ in twi written as ) in published works. I find that disrespectful. Twi is a language with its on letters and it is only right that when written, that orthography is followed. In my book, I made sure that Twi and Ga words were correctly written.
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Ghanaian churches are the biggest drivers of homophobia in the country. AND Ghanaian churches conduct development projects that benefit many people the government ignores. So the state is silent on religious homophobia and the populace, knowing who feeds them, also remains silent
Internationally funded church projects: €320,00 3yr grant for the Methodist Agricultural Program; €460,000 for a vocational training program by the Presbyterian Church of Ghana; a 3yr €295,000 grant for a health education project by Salvation Army
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the homosociality of this hearing, men stroking one another, calling the other senior brother, exchanging laughs as they discuss whether some of us deserve to live or not....
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Back in June I hosted a book reading and signing in Accra
@TheShop_accra
. It was a treat to share my work with folks in Ghana. Such a beautiful event with surprise appearances by some of my faves.
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It is especially important for those of us abroad to join the fight for queer freedom in Ghana. Due to state terrorism and fear of reprisal, stakes are especially high for queer Ghanaians and allies to speak out. But we can.
Silent Majority, Ghana is recruiting members to contribute to a collective strategy for rejecting the perverse anti-LGBTQ bill in parliament and creating conditions for queer Ghanaians to live dignified and free lives. Share the statement and join us
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That time of year when Ghanaians and other Africans return to Accra is upon us. How will orgs like
@Ahaspora
and
@Afrochella
help visitors make sense of the current political moment, including the state’s repression, police violence, and anti-LGBTIQ climate.
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When the state uses your private life to threaten your livelihood it challenges your autonomy. This does not only happen to queer Ghanaians, but enforced homophobia is used to redirect anger and silence dissent. This is why queer freedom must be central to
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
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This claim that queer people are recruiting students is wild. It’s in the bill and…where does it come from?. Who first claimed it? Why? Who provides the funds? Why are the alleged recruiters doing this? What is the benefit for those willing to be recruited? So many questions!
LGBTQ Bill: They are setting up recruitment drives in our secondary schools.
It is widespread. It's not only in Ola Girls. Now people are being paid to recruit young people to engage in the act - MP, Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Sam George.
#Newsfile
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There is a circus on Ghanaian media where journalists are shamelessly promoting their homophobic stance by asking whether the majority doesn’t have a right to live in Ghana without homosexuals. And therein these journalists let us know that they truly do not think we are human.
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The goal of this violence, these harassing emails, physical and political attacks, is to silence all of us, to create conditions in which a repressive regime remains entrenched. But we who believe in freedom will not rest until it comes.
I wrote about the Waterloo stabbing, Jordan Peterson, political transphobia, and why we sure as hell aren't going to stop teaching gender studies.
For
@nbmediacoop
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I’m sure folks are sad about this news. The important thing is that the billboards went up. It was bold and brave. It was a refusal to be cowed by the oppressive voices that will silence us. What is so offensive about calling for true freedom in a democracy?
#WeAreAllGhana
According to media reports, some "unknown persons" have pulled down a billboard by
@LGBTRightsGhana
after threats from Sam George and anti-LGBTQI groups
The harmless billboard was calling for equality and true freedom for all Ghanaians (not only LGBTQ persons)
🎥By
@metrotvgh
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Apparently, in response to queries about her hosting the lead MP on that homophobic bill in Ghana, the French ambassador has this to say. Her words demonstrate a morally bankrupt and cynical position that hides behind procedure conventions to subvert respect for all peoples.
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In response to queer Ghanaians' fight to be afforded the same basic human recognition as everyone else, some people are demanding that polygamy be legalized. These people think there are saying something meaningful but are merely showing off their bigotry in broad strokes.
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I wrote about how that question to the Moroccan captain helps evade sexual harassment.
“the hyperfocus on whether female footballers are lesbians evades a much larger issue for players – the everyday forms of workplace sexual harassment that they face.”
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Ghana is a homophobic country even though we have an international reputation as a peace loving democratic country -
@nas009
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One way the state gets away with oppression is by hiding behind bureaucracy, which anonymizes. But there is a judge handling this case, deciding how to execute “justice.” The circuit court judge at Ho is Roberta E. Otriso.
#ReleaseAllThe21
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Was sitting outside the library today watching so many beautiful people sit and take photos with this sculpture. Wonderful to see
Fabulous “sit and talk for awhile” Allison Saar statue/installation in honor of Lorraine Hansberry.
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I sent this video to both my parents and it really resonated with them. My mother added that yes, there’s a real fear of speaking out because “they” will gather all the mothers who are concerned about their children, beat them, and banish them. 1/2
A message from my Mother to other Mother's who's Children are in the LGBTQ
Please retweet
@LGBTRightsGhana
@nitabhalla
@RightifyGhana
@wanlov
@deborahvanessa7
#killthebill
#wofie
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Ending 2022 with the publication of an article from my current book project in the Contemporary Journal of African Studies. Especially pleased to have this work open access which means all who are interested can read it freely. Playing for Oman Ghana
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Ask yourself why you’re afraid of being lured. What is so beautiful and enticing about queer life that it can draw you in? Is it because you see queers living in ways that affirm the music of our souls? Is this freedom alluring? It should be. Freedom is beautiful.
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The global debt industry administered by the IMF and World Bank is an extension of colonialism. Citizens are packaged and sold to world economic powers while politicians and corporations take a cut. History repeats itself. Na wa for Ghanaians. Being sold at every turn.
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Reviewing the ASA (African Studies) program and...a mess.
"Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí wishes to acknowledge that in the
thirty-eight years since the Distinguished Africanist
Award was conferred, she is the first African woman to
be so recognized."
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Privileged Ghanaians love to disavow the violence that police suffer on marginalized others. Queer people have been yelling from the rooftops about their experiences of violence from police yet, based on vibes, someone claims that the police are “protecting.” This is complicity.
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Today I had a conversation with a highly educated Ghanaian Christian who shared his belief that by protecting LGBTQ+ Ghanaians from discrimination and violence, “things could get out of hand.” 1/6
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