Category: Non-binary Blog
#WorldHumanistDay: Saving Nigeria is everyone’s business including the irreligious
On paper, Nigeria is a secular state. A budding multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural democracy brimming with potential. We have the ...
#PrideMonth: Non-Binary Chat discusses pointers in building your own affirming family as a queer person
Picture this: a friendship of 22 years dissolves into, “Just to be safe, I will sleep in the parlour.” Just ...
#PrideMonth: Boihood; Personal Triumphs of Being in Community With Bois
By Alexandra Maduagwu Boi has a variety of meanings. For this piece, which relates to masculine women or women-aligned people, ...
#PrideMonth: Love is everything but love; a queer Muslim man’s experience with love
By Phaysal Phagge It is difficult to write about love when everything you know about it has been anything but, ...
The ‘dos and don’ts’ of supporting a marginalised group
On any other day it will make all the sense in the world to simply say, “Support marginalised groups,” and ...
Nigeria’s Twitter ban affects LGBT+ Nigerians worse than other Nigerians
A lot has been said about the consequences of the Twitter ban in Nigeria with regards to its impact on ...
#PrideMonth: The Sacristy, Sex and Sexuality; A personal essay on self-acceptance
By Marian Nwakolo Growing up, I was the child who dragged her parents to school to fight the management for ...
What it means when we tell LGBT+ Nigerians: “Keep it to yourselves, no one cares”
If you have ever had the strength to challenge a Nigerian to a discourse on their complacency in the systemic ...
We can learn a thing or two about slut-shaming from Tiwa Savage and Seyi Shay
There is power in language we often fail to recognise because of how easily language seems to come to us. ...
#PrideMonth: Introducing ‘Loving in Colour – The Heart of Defiance’ | A #YNaijaSpecial
By Ayodele Olofintuade When Non-binary writer, Ado Aminu approached me to collaborate with YNaija to curate this year’s Pride Month ...
We can learn a thing or two from Nigeria’s Twitter ban
In the wake of the federal government arbitrarily banning Twitter in Nigeria, the bulk of the conversation being had is ...
Lack of accessibility may be pushing Nigerians to self-diagnose mental illness, but it doesn’t have to be the only way
However slow going, the conversation on mental illness continues to shift from the dark place of shame and silence it ...
Saudi Arabia’s restriction on loudspeakers in mosques is worth emulating in Nigeria
If you have ever lived in the heart of Kano – as I have – you know intimately what I ...
International Sex Worker’s Day: Access to justice for sex workers should be our responsibility
One thing sex workers in Nigeria know on any given day is that access to justice is a pipe dream ...
YNaija Non-Binary Chat tackles the question, “What is the place of gay Muslims in the eyes of Allah (SWT)?”
There are many ways to be a Muslim LGBT+ person, but I have only ever allowed myself to contemplate either ...
What does Pride mean to you? 4 LGBT+ Nigerians share
Whatever celebrating LGBT+ pride may mean to you, there is one element that run through each individual meaning – defiance, ...
Constitutional review | Nigeria’s 9th Senate has a chance to shine as champions of inclusion
Nigeria has for the longest time paid lip service to inclusion – of women, the disabled, children and gender and ...
Gender roles, Sharia in South West, Demolition respectability | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria last week
The task of documenting the trajectory of conversation on non-binary issues – sexuality, gender, mental and emotional health, faith and ...
Children’s Day: Taking stock of how Nigeria fails children caught in conflict
There appears to be an existing pattern to the celebration of Children’s Day in Nigeria, and it belies the unseriousness ...
Why legalising sex work could protect women
In the course of the series of interviews that became the YNaija documentary on sex workers, one wish made up ...
Nigeria’s future continues to shrink in the lost dreams of children living with learning disabilities
There is a well-loved meme on the internet whose immortal words “Are you not ashamed of yourself? are you not ...
#PansexualAndPanromanticDayOfVisibility | 5 things you shouldn’t say to a pan person
Not many people even in the LGBTQ+ community pay any mind to pansexuality and panromanticism. The mere mention of the ...
3 Nigerians share lessons they learned in therapy that changed their lives
A practising therapist’s advice once taught me to never frame a piece of advice received from a therapist as “my ...
Profile: The avenging advocacy of Iyabo Ojo
It may be her greatest performance yet. But it had nothing to do with fiction. There was drama though. Plenty ...
How we could all use our privilege better with Twitter’s +Alt Text feature
When the conversation on accessibility comes up – in corporate boardrooms or policy roundtables or in our TV and Radio ...
Alarm: There is an auction market for women all over Nigeria
There is a thriving auction market in Nigeria and what is up for grabs is women. The commodification of women ...
The slow progress of gender parity may be because men are not listening to women
A heated exchange between friends on the merit of men’s allyship in the fight for gender equality concluded thus over the ...
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: The LGBTQ+ resist from the church to the street
One thing that LGBTQ+ people can’t be said to be bad at, is resisting their oppression by whatever means available. ...
Nigerians living with disability are still waiting on the promises of the Disability Act
The time is ticking for all stakeholders to fulfil the promises of the Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act ...
There is a common ground inspiration for better mental health policy in Nigeria
There is a lot that the global pandemic reminded us of about our lives, community and the fragility of society’s ...