Documenting Queerness Archive

Welcome to Documenting Queerness Archive! | In the 1990s, leaders such as Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Sam Nujoma of Namibia publicly denounced non-heteronormativity, framing it as a form of moral decadence imported from the West. Around the same period, debates surrounding the drafting of the post-apartheid constitution in South Africa brought questions of sexuality and rights into sharp focus....

Heterosexism is the institutionalization of a heterosexual norm which establishes the idea that all people are or should be heterosexual, thereby privileging heterosexuals and heterosexuality, and excluding the needs, concerns, cultures, histories, and life experiences of non-heteronormative people. In our last episodes we have discussed the colonial import of homophobia. Or in other words how het...

Hello! You're welcome to the Documenting Queerness Archive! |Queerness outside a Western Gaze- Part II| In our last episode we interrogated how both claiming indigenous non-heteronormativity and queer history is LGBT history as well as claiming that queerness is a western import are both reproducing coloniality and violence. In this episode, we talk about global homophobia and the colonial project...

Welcome to Documenting Queerness Archive!|Queerness outside a Western Gaze- Part I| Are there any ways we can historicise and queer our West African history outside a western Euro-American lens? Why are both labelling precolonial indigenous non-heteronormativity as LGBT AND claiming queerness is western actually active forms of coloniality? Here's where to find us: Host : Afua Brantuo 🔗 https://a...

Welcome to Documenting Queerness Archive! |Episode 1| We are often considered and told we're people without history, western imports, foreign influenced. But– what is history and who decides what is archived today and what ultimately becomes history? Why do we need a queer archive that documents our lives, all the parts of it especially when it isn't violence, abuse, or numbers. Here's where to fi...

Welcome to Documenting Queerness Archive! In our first post, we discuss the origin story behind our archive. Why is a body of work that preserves and tells the stories of non-heteronormative West Africans urgently important. Why do we need an archive that documents the history, everyday politics, and futures of non-heteronormativity? Here's where to find us: https://linktr.ee/awodufie YouTube- Doc...