(East)African feminist writer, strategist, documenter: bodies, movements, philanthropy, imagination. East Africa Regional Director @fordfoundation. Views my own
Feb 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Homophobia appears on this continent in waves- always linked to either the recent presence/funding of US and European religious right groups; and/or to political/economic crises that need masking with a call for a witch hunt of minorities.
Analysis by Africans over the years🧵
Zambian Reverend Kapya Kaoma’s extensive research on US funding to reframe ‘African values’ so as to justify legal homophobia (2012)
The deaths of #SarahEverard#BlessingOlusegun are triggering because frankly EVERY woman is either a survivor or knows at least one woman/girl who is. But remember violence against women isn’t inevitable. PREVENTION IS POSSIBLE & there’s amazing work being done to show how.Thread
First let’s acknowledge feminists were right-violence against women exists at a pandemic scale (1 in 3) because its a primary tool for defining women and girls in patriarchy-i.e as objects not subjects, who must comply with patriarchal norms or be punished. Violence is normative.
Jun 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The founding premise of a nation often determines the nature of it’s path. The USA was founded on a genocide of Native Americans and the mass enslavement of Africans. It chose God & Freedom as it’s brand because the colonists needed to believe it was all justified. Sanctified.
This land of the free that houses 1/4 of the world’s prison population + a $700+ billion military budget to match the size of fear in the pilgrim psyche that one day the ocean itself will rise up in revenge. Generations of movements have struggled to change this, seek reparation
