Category: Non-binary Blog

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DamilolaNovember 22, 2023

Olumide Makanjuola speaks on People’s right to be themselves on #WithChude

My dear friend, Olumide Makanjuola recently launched his first book, published by Cassava Republic and co-authored with the novelist, Jude ...

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YNaijaSeptember 12, 2022

NIGERIA’s FIRST EVER (MONTH-LONG) LGBTQ+ PRIDE PROTESTS (OF MANY TO COME)

Part 3/15: Welcome to pride 2019 The origin of the pride flags, the Colours and the meaning behind them. Location: ...

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YNaijaSeptember 12, 2022

NIGERIA’s FIRST EVER (MONTH-LONG) TRANS PRIDE PROTESTS (OF MANY TO COME)

Part 2/15: Trans Pride, Trans day of Visibility & Tans Remembrance DayLocation: Broad Street Lagos (04/09/2019) It is argued that ...

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YNaijaSeptember 12, 2022

NIGERIA’s FIRST EVER (MONTH-LONG) BISEXUAL PRIDE PROTESTS (OF MANY TO COME)

Part 1/15: Bi Pride/Bi Visibility Day, Bisexual Awareness Week, Pansexual Pride DayLocation: Abuja City Gate (01/09/2019) Welcome to pride 2019, ...

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Ado AminuNovember 5, 2021

In worship of the Mother Goddess; Yemoja Festival 2021

Yemoja is the Yoruba Orisha or Goddess of the living Ocean, considered the Mother of All. She is the source ...

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Chinedu OkaforNovember 5, 2021

VIS social impact calls on African script writers to apply

VIS Social Impact, the new studio division of ViacomCBS International Studios dedicated to the development of ground-breaking social impact-driven content, has opened ...

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Ado AminuOctober 6, 2021

Paternity leave is a new reality in Nigeria | Here are the benefits if done right

After years of clamour by advocates for Nigeria to avail new fathers of paid paternity leave, it appears some headway ...

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Ado AminuOctober 5, 2021

#ADHDAwarenessMonth | What you need to know

ADHD Awareness Month is celebrated every October, with events and activities happening around the world, yet for one of the ...

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Ado AminuSeptember 27, 2021

Religious conversion is all fun and games unless you are a woman

For a majority of religious people, life’s ultimate goal is the reward they are promised in an afterlife. Heaven, Paradise, ...

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Ado AminuSeptember 23, 2021

Down The Memory Lane: A journey of acceptance

I The first time I thought queer lives matter, I am standing at the boarding students’ dining hall with some ...

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Ado AminuSeptember 23, 2021

#BisexualPrideDay: The dummies guide to understanding that biphobia is not human

In a country where pride in anything outside of the straight and narrow is heavily frowned upon, and bisexuality is ...

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Ado AminuSeptember 10, 2021

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay: Attempted suicide is still a crime in Nigeria when our hope lies in its decriminalisation

‘Suicide is not an option.’ Reads a very colourful sign at the entrances of a Non-Governmental Organisation in Kaduna, whose ...

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Ado AminuAugust 25, 2021

African Spirituality winning over every other belief is the main appeal of ‘My Village People’

For most entertainment consumers – we know only of our Nigerian reality understandably, waking up to the news of a ...

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Ado AminuAugust 21, 2021

#PrideMonth: Long distance Relationships as an Aesthetic of Queer Love

By Damilola Aremo A few months ago, someone had asked a question on Twitter. It was one of those question-type ...

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Ado AminuAugust 13, 2021

Kawajo: The immortal transwoman who changed Kano forever

It isn’t so bizarre – because the flow of energy goes whatever way it just does – that someone will ...

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Ado AminuAugust 10, 2021

#EndSARS: 2 Queer men and 1 straight man unravel where we went wrong

There are events too traumatic even for the human memory – its evolved glory notwithstanding – to hold in a ...

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Ado AminuAugust 9, 2021

Mannequins and erections | An in-depth view of the Hisbah mannequin ban in Kano

It is a given, that you can’t help but roll your eyes when you read a headline like, ‘Kano Hisbah ...

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Ado AminuAugust 6, 2021

This is the Northern gambit you didn’t know about regarding enforcing Shari’ah

Unless you have a core of steel, shock is a natural reaction to news items like the arrest for blasphemy ...

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Ado AminuAugust 5, 2021

What happens when 2 gay and 3 straight men walk into a bar?

If you are going by all the horrible stories of violence against queer bodies across the world – from the ...

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Ado AminuJuly 15, 2021

See something, say something | Things we can do as individuals to stop workplace sexual harassment

If you are like a majority of people, the statement, “I am delighted upon reviewing this 12-page policy document to ...

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Ado AminuJuly 15, 2021

#InternationalDayOfNonbinaryPeople: “I am a boy who is a boy, a girl, and fully human” | Reflection on nonbinary identity

“There is something both liberating and scary about this nonbinary gender identity,” I said to a dear friend last month. ...

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Ado AminuJuly 15, 2021

South West Governors’ Forum may get us one step towards ending child marriage

There is a dangerous contradictory of the Nigerian constitution that has been a thorn in the side of all right-thinking ...

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Ado AminuJuly 13, 2021

The proposed constitutional amendment by Southwest Governors is the real deal for gender inclusion

To be able to say, “Something good is coming from the stable of Nigeria’s political class,” and mean it is ...

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Ado AminuJuly 13, 2021

For Non-Binary Awareness Week, this commitment should be your starting point

The week starting the Sunday or Monday preceding 14 July every year since 2012 is celebrated globally as non-binary awareness ...

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Ado AminuJuly 12, 2021

Borno IDP Camps: Could Governor Zulum be misplacing the difference between ‘prostitution’ and rape?

On Wednesday, July 7 2021, Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, lamented that prostitution is on the ...

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Ado AminuJuly 12, 2021

Male rape survivors would get help but homophobia wouldn’t allow it

#TriggerWarning; Rape. Every year, millions of boys and girls globally suffer sexual violence. The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) ...

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Ado AminuJuly 9, 2021

5 Things to do when you get a panic attack

If you can picture this, chances are you have been there before – even if you didn’t have the words ...

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Ado AminuJuly 9, 2021

What non-humanist Nigerians think of humanism

In writing about World Humanist Day – for which we interviewed Activist and Member, Board of Directors Humanist Association of ...

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Ado AminuJuly 6, 2021

Tackling workplace sexual harassment is far easier for organisations than some ad campaigns

Anna’s* career path has been dotted with job switches since she finished NYSC in 2018, for reasons completely unrelated to ...

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Ado AminuJuly 6, 2021

Where “Out and Proud” does not have to be bare-faced

An acquaintance made a passing remark that started a conversation on whether we can call a public declaration of who ...

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