{"id":65,"date":"2021-07-07T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:29:44","slug":"tansintersexhistoryafrica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans & Intersex History Africa \u2014 Digital Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We document events and important moments in a visual timeline as experienced and remembered by trans, gender diverse and intersex activists on the African Continent and within the African Diaspora<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\"It is important that we as African trans, gender diverse and intersex people speak for ourselves\" \u2014 Victor Mukasa<\/strong><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This statement by one of Trans & Intersex History Africa’s (TIHA) founders, Victor Mukasa<\/a>, speaks to the rationale behind the TIHA digital archive, the history of trans, gender diverse and intersex movements in Africa, and the importance of archiving our histories\/herstories\/theirstories.<\/em><\/p>

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\u201cIt is important that African trans, gender diverse and intersex people speak for ourselves because these are our experiences, these are our stories, these are our lives. It is our challenges, it is our joys, it is us. No other person can speak better for trans and intersex people than ourselves.<\/strong>\u00a0And we have the ability and that is why we are doing it on the TIHA website because we can do this ourselves and we are able to collect our stories, with support. This is why we have to go back and look for all those that contributed, all those that experienced life in these identities.\u00a0History gets distorted if those who experienced it are not the ones telling it.\u00a0In order for us to get an authentic account of where we come from, we need to get it from the trans and intersex people themselves in Africa. When we do it ourselves then we own it because it is our life. We own it.\u201c<\/h4>

\u201cIt is known worldwide that a movement without history that is documented and placed somewhere accessible, is a movement that works blindly. To have a vision we need to realise where we have come from. That is what gives us strength. The histories of trans and intersex people in Africa need to be documented and made accessible for this reason.<\/strong>\u00a0That documentation is wealth to those who will come after us.\u00a0That documentation, our histories, are the fuel that drives us.\u00a0<\/u>It is our pride, it is the torch that every time things get difficult we look back, see how far we have come, see what we did to come that far.\u00a0It is important to show the resilience of people in Africa so that we have something that will energise those who come after. The pride they will have in their history will push them into preserving that and to fighting for every trans and intersex person who comes after.\u201c<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

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Supporting advocacy and movement building through archiving<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We document events and important moments in a digital archive in the form of a visual timeline, as well as audio and video interviews as experienced and remembered by activists on the African Continent and within the African Diaspora.<\/span><\/p>

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As is the case worldwide, the anti-gender, conservative, TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) rhetoric continues to gain strength and influences government policies, law and public sentiment, which impacts trans, gender diverse and intersex people\u2019s lived realities and their fundamental human rights. We believe that the <\/span>Trans & Intersex History in Africa (<\/span>TIHA) digital archive can contribute to the efforts of organisations, specifically those who cannot publicise their work due to threat of financial and legal consequences (which includes one of our founding partners), to ensure that trans, gender diverse and intersex existence and lived experience is recorded. This record will play a part in ensuring the collaborative strength of the African movements in combating the anti-trans, anti-gender-diverse and anti-intersex sentiment on the continent and in the African diaspora.<\/span><\/p>

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The TIHA digital archive acknowledges the existence of multiple movements, networks, groups and individuals and that the stories to be told are intersectional and carry various voices to form histories\/herstories\/theirstories. <\/span><\/span>We are m<\/span><\/span>aking a start with the information currently available but invite stories in whatever media to be submitted from across the continent and from the many places and voices not yet represented.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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While we are in a c<\/span>ontinuous process of rethinking this important work, we invite you to engage with the information that the TIHA digital archive and Trans & Intersex Archival Conversations<\/a> present. Get involved! Reach out! You can list your organisation\/group, share your stories through the Timeline or through the Talk Show by<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>getting in touch <\/a>with us. <\/span>We particularly invite first person stories and can facilitate the sharing of these in various languages.<\/span><\/b><\/p>

Read more about how the TIHA archive supports advocacy and movement building in our ‘About Us’<\/a> section.<\/strong><\/p>

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There are different ways to access the information in the database of the Timeline. You can scroll through the entire chronological timeline of events, or filter the results according to a specific category or search by topic:<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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