• ELIXHER
• On June 27, 2014

“For Sizakele”
Queer African Diaspora: A Radical Talk, Presentation + Dialogue
Talk | Multi-Media Presentation | Performance | Community Dialogue
By: Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene

Host: Kitchen Table Giving Circle

When: Tuesday, July 8th, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Audre Lorde Project, 147 West 24th Street, 3rd Floor

Community Sponsors: Audre Lorde Project, Black Lesbian Conference 2015: Beyond Bold & Brave – The Evolution of Our Community, Elixher

WHAT’S REALLY GOOD THO?
This talk and presentation is a celebration and honoring of the magical artwork and activism of Queer Africans within and outside of Africa and will center the ways Queer African liberation movements are using media to share their stories, create safe spaces, organize as well as build intra-African collaboration and global allyship.

From Sakia Gunn to David Kato, queer bodies are being killed all over the world. Othering Africa as “more” dangerous, violent and scary than all the other homophobic places on the planet (including the U.S.) is racist. Period. And only serves as a distraction from the fact that homophobia is homophobia, no matter where it occurs. *Also* there are vast differences between us—immigration status, language, access to education, gender, class and color—all of which impact how we experience love, our sexuality, homophobia, heterosexism and transphobia.

HE/ARTWORK
What are Queer African Diasporic identities? What does Queer African Diasporic organizing and transcontinental art-making look like? How are African gender identities and presentation uniquely based in African cultural understandings of gender? How does traveling between one’s country of origin and the country immigrated to (within or outside of Africa) impact these identities?

COMRADES: FOR. REAL.
How can non-Africans be true allies to Queer Africans? This talk will create room for how to *not* contribute to oppressive ways of viewing, thinking of and talking about Queer Africa(ns) as well as tangible ways to support Queer African artwork and activism, e.g.: organizations you can support, projects you can volunteer for—basically the low down on how you can get down and get on up with Queer African liberation movement brilliance. Genuine allyship between Queer Africans and Queer or Non-Queer Non-Africans is often prohibited by a romanticization and/or ignorance of African history and realities. This talk offers ways to bridge the gaps between us.

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