Coalition of African Lesbians – Trans & Intersex History Africa

June 2020 — Kakuma Refugee Camp: Refugees Approach Victor Mukasa Again, Kenya

All, Asylum Seekers/Migrants/Refugees, Community, Diaspora, LGBTIAQ+, Publications, Trans & Intersex / #FreeBlock13, Asylum & Migration (ORAM), Black LGBTQ Migrant Project, Block 13, CAL, Chriton Atuhwera, Coalition of African Lesbians, GIN, Jass Associated, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Kuchu, Organization for Refuge, Pan Africa ILGA (PAI), Rainbow Railroad, The Victor Mukasa Show, Triangle Project, Uganda, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Victor Mukasa

In June 2020 the Ugandan LGBTQIA+ refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp reached out to activist Victor Mukasa, saying “Victor, we are dying, we are dying in the refugee camp”. Not much had changed since the last time Victor had worked with the refugees in 2014, even though global activists and organisations had become involved. …

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26 February 2008 — “Understanding Transgender” Presentation to the Coalition of African Lesbians Feminist Institute, Mozambique

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The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) Feminist Institute in Maputo, Mozambique invited Gender DynamiX (GDX) to do a presentation on “Understanding Transgender” on 26 February 2008. This request was a result of the raised interest in trans understanding in Africa after the ARC International conference just two months prior. GDX decided to diversify the newly …

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2007 — Formation of Rainbow Identity Association (RIA), Botswana

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Skipper Mogapi and a handful of self-identified trans and intersex persons formed a support group in Botswana in 2007 that would later be known as the Rainbow Identity Association (RIA). The founding of RIA was a result of the influence of the awareness raised at the ARC International conference in Johannesburg in December 2007 and the meeting of the Coalition of …

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