Workbook
Queer and African
Navigating Queerness in a Diasporic Culture Where It Has No Public Name
This workbook names the African diasporic queer identity that has no public word in the language of home.
For the queer African — Nigerian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, Ugandan, Ethiopian, Somali, Sierra Leonean, and across the continent and its diaspora — navigating a cultural context where queerness is not just stigmatized but in many cases criminalized in the country of origin, where the diaspora carries those norms across borders, and where Black American queer identity does not map cleanly onto the African immigrant queer experience.
The Name It First Experience
You live at the intersection of a queerness that has no word in your parents' language and a cultural home that does not publicly acknowledge you exist. Queer and African maps the specific terrain of holding a queer identity inside a diasporic African context — where queerness is criminalized in the country of origin, where the diaspora carries those norms across borders, and where Black American queer identity does not translate cleanly — and builds the documented self that names both the African identity and the queerness without requiring either to be erased. This workbook is for the queer Nigerian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, Ugandan, Ethiopian, Somali, Sierra Leonean, and every African across the continent and the diaspora who has lived an identity that has no public name. Navigating Queerness in a Diasporic Culture Where It Has No Public Name is the workbook that starts the naming.
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Sample questions
- What has it cost you to carry an identity that does not have a name in your family's cultural language?
- What does your African cultural identity give you that queer communities outside your diaspora do not understand?
- Where have you found community that holds even part of who you are?
Research basis
African queer studies / diaspora research / Berry acculturation / criminalization of homosexuality research / intersectionality (Crenshaw)
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