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    She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak
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    She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak
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    She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak

    By Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan and Rafeeat Aliyu

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    About this ebook

    "These true stories are beautifully told, the pain and honesty and hope and joy in these accounts is strong like a song" – Stella Duffy

    This stirring and intimate collection brings together 25 first-hand accounts to paint a vivid portrait of what it means to be a queer Nigerian woman. These beautifully told stories of resistance and resilience reveal the realities of a community that will no longer be invisible. From the joy and excitement of first love, and from childhood games to addiction and suicide, She Called Me Woman shows us how Nigerian queer women, in all their multitudes, attempt to build a life together.

    She Called Me Woman challenges us to rethink what it means to be a Nigerian 'woman', negotiating relationships, money, sexuality and freedom, identifying outside the gender binary, and the difficulties of achieving hopes and dreams in a climate of fear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCASSAVA REPUBLIC
    Release dateApr 26, 2018
    ISBN9781911115601
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    She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak
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    Azeenarh Mohammed

    Azeenarh Mohammed is a trained lawyer and a queer, feminist, holistic security trainer who spends her time training not-for-profit organisations on tools and tactics for digital and physical security and psycho-social well-being. Azeenarh is active in the queer women's issues in Nigeria and has written on queerness and technology for publications including, This is Africa, Perspectives, and Premium TimesNG.

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