Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, Rafeeat Aliyu

She Called Me Woman (eBook, ePUB)

Nigeria's Queer Women Speak

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"These true stories are beautifully told, the pain and honesty and hope and joy in these accounts is strong like a song" – Stella Duffy This stirring and intimate collection brings together 25 first-hand accounts to paint a vivid portrait of what it means to be a queer Nigerian woman. These beautifully told stories of resistance and resilience reveal the realities of a community that will no longer be invisible. From the joy and excitement of first love, and from childhood games to addiction and suicide, She Called Me Woman shows us how Nigerian queer women, in all their multitudes, attempt to build a life together. She Called Me Woman challenges us to rethink what it means to be a Nigerian 'woman', negotiating relationships, money, sexuality and freedom, identifying outside the gender binary, and the difficulties of achieving hopes and dreams in a climate of fear.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CASSAVA REPUBLIC
• Seitenzahl: 357
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911115601
• Artikelnr.: 52448926

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1I Pray That Everyone Has Forgotten 18She Called Me 'Woman' 24Love Is Not Wrong 39I Only Admire Girls 49I Am A Proud Lesbian 57We Have Social Media Now. We Have Exposure 65Focusing On Joy 79My Sexuality Is Just The Icing On The Cake 91This Is Not Our World 102The Happiest Moments Of My Life Are Yet To Come 120Living A Double Life 125Doing Things My Own Way 139I Want To Be Myself Around People I Care About 147What Is Happiness? 164To Anyone Being Hated, Be Strong 172My Past Lovers Have Made Me Who I Am 188Some Things You Do For Your Heart 192Your Sexuality Doesn't Define Who You Are 203Who I Have Sex With Is Not Part Of My Identity 215If You Want Lesbian, Go To Room 24 220Everybody In J-Town Is Now A Lola 239Same-Sex Relationships Are A Choice 250This Same-Sex Thing Stays A Long Time 261When I Die, I Just Want To Be Remembered 265There Is No One Way To Be A Woman 275A Woman Who Loves Other Women 283I Don't Believe In Love 292I Can Still Love More 304Why Do I Have To Ask You To Consider Me Human? 312I Convinced Myself I Wasn't A Lesbian 329Biographies 341Acknowledgements 342