Proudly African and Transgender

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October 2015 — Founding of Wings to Transcend Namibia (WTTN),  Namibia

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Jholerina  B. Timbo founded Wings to Transcend Namibia (WTTN) in October 2015. Jholerina is one of the trans activists who collaborated with Gabrielle Le Roux in the Proudly African portrait drawing series, which was created during the Eastern and Southern African Trans/Gender Identity Institute, in December 2008. Mission “Wings To Transcend Namibia will be a …

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20 March 2014 — Trans Activist from Uganda Granted Asylum in the U.S., Uganda

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Nikilas (Nikki) Mawanda, a trans man and activist from Uganda and founder of an NGO in the country*,  was granted LGBTIQ+ asylum status in the U.S. on 20 March 2014. Asylum was granted months after fleeing his home in Uganda due to the state-sanctioned violence of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which was passed by the Ugandan …

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June 2010 — First Inter-Continental Trans and Intersex Advocacy Meeting

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June 2010 — First Inter-Continental Trans and Intersex Advocacy Meeting Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE) organised the first of its kind, international trans and intersex advocacy meeting in Barcelona, Spain, with participants from all regions and all continents in June 2010. The meeting consisted of 2 parts. June 1–3 was the Trans* Action = …

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December 2008 — Proudly African & Transgender Art Exhibition, South Africa

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During the Eastern and Southern African Trans/Gender Identity Institute workshop hosted in Cape Town in December 2008, Gabrielle Le Roux collaborated with Victor Mukasa and the other individual activists by drawing portraits of ten sub-Saharan African trans and intersex activists. Each person wrote a personal activism message on their own portrait. This activism-art work, titled Proudly …

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December 2008 — Eastern and Southern African Trans/Gender Identity Institute, South Africa

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In December 2008, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), today known as OutRight International, and Gender DynamiX (GDX) hosted the historical Eastern and Southern African Trans/Gender Identity Institute. 16 Trans and intersex activists from 9 African countries attended the meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. This was the first ever trans and …

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