Dr. STELLA NYANZI IS FREE!
This is a great day for feminists everywhere, pan-African feminists and feminists around the world! A High Court quashed her conviction and sentencing. She has been in prison for a poem deemed “cyber harassment” about #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni
This is a great day for feminists everywhere, pan-African feminists and feminists around the world! A High Court quashed her conviction and sentencing. She has been in prison for a poem deemed “cyber harassment” about #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni
In August 2019, the feminist scholar, activist and poet was sentenced to 18 months in prison for writing a poem wishing that Museveni’s mother’s birth canal had poisoned him during birth. Read the poem @drstellanyanzi wrote from prison and #BeBoldLikeNyanzi 
Dr. Stella Nyanzi is one of my heroes. Her insistence on profanity in the face of patriarchy and dictatorship - the real profanity, the real offense, the real vulgarity - is legendary.
Fuck the patriarchy, everywhere. Fuck dictatorship, everywhere.
Fuck the patriarchy, everywhere. Fuck dictatorship, everywhere.
During her sentencing in Aug 2019, Nyanzi was not allowed to attend court but was beamed in from prison via video - she flashed her breasts and shouted “fuck you fuck you fuck you” in protest video via @rosebellk
Nyanzi is a hero. Her insistence on violating patriarchy’s rules by talking explicitly about taboo subjects—be they the president’s buttocks, sex, sexuality, queerness—should be studied everywhere as a masterclass in the power of refusing to obey the rules of “politeness.”
This is from a poem @drstellanyanzi wrote in prison about the power of flashing her breasts during her sentencing:
“My breasts were blazing bazookas-
Shooting down the injustices of injustice”
“My breasts were blazing bazookas-
Shooting down the injustices of injustice”
Women shall no longer wait for timid men
To fight for the liberation of Uganda
We pack missiles in our own pens and grenades in our mouths
And shoot our truths at the dictatorship
- Stella Nyanzi, from 45 poems she wrote upon turning 45 in prison
africanfeminism.com/women-shall-no…
To fight for the liberation of Uganda
We pack missiles in our own pens and grenades in our mouths
And shoot our truths at the dictatorship
- Stella Nyanzi, from 45 poems she wrote upon turning 45 in prison
africanfeminism.com/women-shall-no…
Dr. Stella Nyanzi wom her appeal and is free. Her fight continues.
Thank you @RosebellK and other feminist sisters and comrades in #Uganda for keeping us updated through court and prison visits.
Continue to support by #FF @drstellanyanzi @BoldLikeNyanzi
#BoldLikeNyanzi
Thank you @RosebellK and other feminist sisters and comrades in #Uganda for keeping us updated through court and prison visits.
Continue to support by #FF @drstellanyanzi @BoldLikeNyanzi
#BoldLikeNyanzi
Background; This is an article on about the sentencing in Aug. 2019 of Dr. Stella Nyanzi who was imprisoned for publishing a metaphorical poem about the birth of President Yoweri Museveni and his mother's vagina.
cnn.com/2019/08/02/afr… #BoldLikeNyanzi
cnn.com/2019/08/02/afr… #BoldLikeNyanzi
Everywhere I speak, I pay tribute to @drstellanyanzi.
e.g. on #Australian TV show Q&A.The episode is banned from rebroadcast for reasons including I said “fuck” 10 times & asked “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women!” Fuck civility
e.g. on #Australian TV show Q&A.The episode is banned from rebroadcast for reasons including I said “fuck” 10 times & asked “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women!” Fuck civility
