Pride Week 2:

Celebrating Gender Expansiveness

This week our Pride & Protest celebration focuses on gender expansiveness. This programming aims to help queer Ghanaians and allies to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the experiences of trans* and gender expansive Ghanaians.

We begin by sharing clips from a fascinating conversation on Black genders across space and time. These videos offer insightful analyses of gender from a postcolonial perspective from two Ghanaian thinkers, Dr. Godfried Asante and Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi. We also include a brilliant Q&A from all panelists from the event. If you watch nothing else, be sure to spend some time with the Q&A.

On Wednesday, join us for a Twitter Conversation using the #QueerGhanaianLivesMatter to answer questions from the videos and engage in additional learning.

Thursday, we have a live screening and discussion of Ngminvielu Kuuire fantastic new documentary, TomQueens and conclude our celebration with an Instagram Live conversation with activist Jamal Venance.

Visceral Disruptions

In this video, Dr. Godfried Asante discusses how Ghana's postcolonial landscape offers a fruitful site for examining gender expansiveness. Using the case of the artist Angel Maxine, Asante argues that age and respectability are relevant in understanding how some trans* and gender expansive peoples

Radically Queer

Va Bene Elikem Fiatsi, aka crazinisT artisT, uses performance and storytelling to: theorize how violence perpetuates via bystander effects; break down the public/private distinction of gender; and challenge colonial impositions of gender binary.

Q&A: Black Genders Across Space and Time

If you watch nothing else, take a listen to this Q&A which opens up space for thinking about gender, sexuality, class, colonialism, and liberation.