Queer feminists organizing offline in Ghana

LBQ Gathering, a collective of LGBTQIA+ activists from Ghana seeks to build a community of queer Ghanaian women and non-binary people.

Photo: UN Women.

In this interview, Rama Dieng talks to the four founding members of the LBQ Gathering about the challenges and promises of queer feminist organizing offline in Ghana, as well as on insights on how allies and comrades can join them to speak truth to power in the context of hostile civic spaces.

About the Interviewee

Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.

Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.

Golda Gatsey is a freelance writer and customer relationship manager.

Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

About the Interviewer

Dr. Rama Salla Dieng is a Senegalese citizen and lecturer in International development and African studies at the University of Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom.

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