Check out these powerful films -- Taxi Sister, KungFu Grandma, The Witches of Gambaga, and Ladies' Turn -- exploring the lives of African women through narrative documentary. They're showing at the London Feminist Film Festival, which was set up as a response to the under-representation of women in the film…
Check out my review of Beautiful Sentence, a short documentary about women in prison as they experience the liberating effect of creative writing, in which I reflect on gender segregation in prison systems and its impact on transgender women. Beautiful Sentence screens at the first annual London Feminist Film Festival…
I didn't sign into Facebook that morning. I knew what I'd see; a timeline of status updates and cropped purple photos for Spirit Day; a timely performance of empathy. I knew, too, that my Facebook feed, practically segmented into Lists, including one for "Nigerian", "College" and "Queer" would vary in…
An articled called, "An End to Self Care" was recently published, in which an activist proposed bringing an end to all the individualism behind "self-care" and, instead, called for sustainable community care. His piece (and some of its praise) reminded me why I've made it a point to stay away…
BET.com interviews me about my work as a media activist focusing on gender and LGBT issues in Africa. The piece, which was very positive and optimistic, prompted some thoughts about what "good" media activism means to me. Surprisingly "good" media has nothing to do with it. Read the interview, and…