Subira and Wandia - Queer Kenyan Twins - Metal Print

Subira and Wandia - Queer Kenyan Twins - 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. 

Queer Kenyan Twins: Subira (left, Pronouns: they) and Wandia (right, Pronouns: she)

Hamburg, Germany (2017)

Subira (left) : I dealt with a lot of racism in LGBTQ spaces during my undergraduate degree, which was exhausting and isolating. I would try to overcome that by attempting to educate everyone, which was even more exhausting. Eventually I learnt to set better boundaries, and invite people to do their own learning for themselves. Luckily the spaces I’m in now are a lot better, and when I do still (inevitably) experience racism in queer spaces, I have a good community of QTIPOC (queer, trans, and intersex people of colour) folks who I know will have my back.

Wandia (right) : Before western colonialism, norms about sexuality and gender in Africa looked very different to how they did after the violence of colonisation. In many African countries societies were built differently, nuclear families were not the normal constellation in which children were raised, gender was not binary, cisgenderism and heterosexuality were not the norm. But the white coloniser's narrow ideas of what constituted 'civilisation' were forced upon people on the continent, and cultural practices, religions and traditions were brutally and violently erased and replaced in part with homophobic, transphobic religious teachings.

.:Ready to hang, metal print