Upcoming Event : LGBTQIA+ Activism in Africa and the Diaspora
BU ASC Webinar | LGBTQIA+ Activism in Africa and the Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives on Community and Solidarity
Join BU African Studies Center and Diversity & Inclusion for a Zoom panel discussion featuring activists and scholars involved in activism and organizing around LGBTQIA+ communities and rights across the African continent and diaspora. Panelists will discuss: What are common misconceptions about LGBTQIA+ experiences from your perspective? What does solidarity look like, and what are fruitful ways for activists and supporters to approach transnational solidarity? What are recommendations for how activists and scholars in the Global North may engage with LGBTQIA+ communities and movements in ways that do not reproduce the imperialist gaze or a universalist perspective?
Organized by the BU African Studies Center with support from BU Diversity & Inclusion’s Learn More Programming Grant.
Learn from scholars, artists and organizers engaged in LGBTQIA+ activism across identities and communities spanning Africa, Europe, North America, and beyond.
Date: Oct 19, 2022 03:00 PM ET
Location: Virtually via Zoom. Register to join.
Panelists:
Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, a communications professor at the University of Georgia with expertise in feminist and LGBTQI+ activism in Ghana
Abdellah Taïa, a writer and activist living in Paris who in 2006 became the first prominent Arab artist to publicly come out as homosexual in Morocco
Mumbi Makena Kanyogo, a writer, educator, and organizer born in Kenya researching how queer Africans create community
Rev. Dr. Kapya John Kaoma (moderator), a Zambian pastor and scholar of religion at the BU School of Theology who has written extensively on sexual politics and the church in Africa