Magazines, books and films

2014, 94 pages

A special issue on the diversity of the art and culture of LGBTQI and queer Afro-Caribbean communities.

The second issue of Qzine, the online magazine for and about sexual minority communities in Africa.

From the editors: "For our second issue we’ve selected the most interesting contributions on the questions of identity and belonging, and clustered them around a stunning photo essay by California-based photographer Marc Allen Bland that highlights the issue of color – in both senses – and invites us to reassess our image of black queer identity."

The third issue of Qzine, the online magazine for and about sexual minority communities in Africa. In contains, amongst other things, a portrait of a Nigerian lesbian poet, an interview with a MSM human rights activist in Burkina Faso and two articles on LGBTI persons emigrating to Canada and Belgium.

From the editors: "Diversity is one of the watchwords of the LGBTIQ rights movement, but we don’t always honour the concept in our own culture. The G in LGBTIQ too often is taken – or takes itself – to be the default queer identity. Transsexuals and intersex people (especially) are treated as internal others. Queer media is dominated by gay male content that often makes only token attempts to include our own minorities."

2014, 75 pages

LGBT Ugandans reclaim the media and tell their stories.

The fifth issue of Qzine, the online magazine for and about sexual minority communities in Africa. This special issue is all about giving a voice to the voiceless. But it is also about the privilege, in bearing witness to these emerging voices, of beating the drum for some of the finest African creative talent of the future.

Above all, this special issue is about recognizing the intrinsic value of some of the creative gems who light up our world, yet never get a chance to shine in the mainstream media. Yet another way for Q-zine to fulfill its mission to promote a conversation by us and for us.