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Happy Pride Month Folx!
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We hope your goals for the second quarter are taking shape! With renewed commitments, insights, and learnings. From our end, the CY team has been working on our second edition of the Girl-Talk Journal, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Together, we hope to continue building an Africa that is safe for women and girls.
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Our Top Stories
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An Article by the GT team, Malawi
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The LGBTIQA+ community in Africa is a movement that has suffered a lot of setbacks this year, especially in countries like Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia where homosexuality still remains a punishable offense.
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These laws continue to abuse the basic human rights of Queer people and continue to create a conducive environment for homophobic environments where the minority group is exposed to so much violence. Universal and inalienable, Interdependent and indivisible, Equal and non-discriminatory. They do not stop being human rights depending on one's sexuality, that is a violation of human rights.
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As intersectional feminist organizations, it is important to strategize how best we can apply the concept of gender mainstreaming, not from the heteronormative perspective but through an intersectional lens where everyone is included regardless of their sexual orientation or expression.
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As a movement, we should work together to come up with advocacy that questions the narrative that breeds violence against queer folks and fights against mainstream media that perpetuate the discussions.
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As Africans, we can learn from past struggles that countries like Botswana had to fight for them to legalize homosexuality and contextualize the same in our individual fights.
Let us fight as a movement so that then we can create an Africa safe for everyone to live in freely.
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Girl-Talk Podcast
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Our Girl-Talk podcast documents the work done by Girl-Talk Coordinators within the continent and aims at generating feminist knowledge, while informing and educating the public. Our intention is to share our work and further grow our community. Journey with us, learn, share and laugh. Give it a listen here and make sure to share with your GT community!
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Join Our Team
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Are you from Tanzania and are passionate about grassroot organizing? We would like you to join our team! Apply here before 12the July 2023.
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