Gesiye - Bisexual/Queer Nigerian - Metal Print

Gesiye - Bisexual/Queer Nigerian - Metal Print

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Limitless Africans is a documentary photography series about LGBTQ African immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Photographed over 6 years in 10 countries, the series documents the lives and experiences of 50 LGBTQ African immigrants and places their narratives in conversation with precolonial African notions of LGBTQ people as the gatekeepers, shamans, and healers of their communities, combatting contemporary ideas that it is "un-African" to be LGBTQ. 

Gesiye – Bisexual/Queer Nigerian-Trinidadian (Pronouns: she)

Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (2015)

“I hear this a lot in the Caribbean, that the LGBTQ experience is un-African or un-natural. From the homophobic music that we all dance and sing along to, to the fact that it’s still illegal to have sex with someone of the same gender in Trinidad*. It’s exhausting. I wish we would accept/understand that gender-fluidity and same sex attraction are historically indigenous and African.”

*: On April 12, 2018 the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago ruled unconstitutional the criminalization of sex between people of the same gender, opening a new chapter for LGBT people and politics in the Caribbean.

.:Ready to Hang, Metal Print