We are flowers sprouting in a desert of homophobia. Our petals are bright, and our leaves have uncoiled, despite the cold. It is Nairobi in June. Everywhere you walk, we exist; some of us visible, others peculiar in our own way. Even in this time when our freedom is limited, we remain true. True to our pasts that have seen us condemn ourselves for the people, physically formed like us, that we have been attracted to. The violence we have …
Your phone vibrates with a notification. You ignore it. You’re hungry as shit and trying to fix something to eat. It vibrates again and the sound irritates you. You don’t like that the sound interrupts Asake …
I kissed a girl, and I liked it. Her lips were soft against mine, her tongue; probing, exploring, and licking away my defenses.Shy at first, then getting deeper, hotter, and wetter.I had thought of what it would …
A young Ghanaian woman suppressed her desire for other women until she went to college in the US and shared an apartment with a Ghanaian authoritative lesbian. Linda promises Abby a good time if she ever …
Perhaps I have perchance mentioned that Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women is now an award winning podcast ? Yes? Just checking to make sure that you knew. Anyways, Nana and I were just recently …
I entered the stall and leaned against the wall for a second. I did not need to use the bathroom. I just needed to get away from her gaze. I wasn’t scared of her, no. She …
14th October 2022. “Go and finger the girl in green.” She said this between kisses, while I was straddling her. This confused me momentarily, because my girlfriend is very aware that I never make the first …
14th October 2022. Before the Party 18:30 We just got back from the beach. The plan for the day had been to go shopping at Makola, get herb at the beach and come home to rest …
By Billy Hani Fingering is often viewed as ‘less than’ in terms of penetrative sex. Due to heterosexual norms, ‘penetrative sex’ is only seen to be valid when it involves a penis. Otherwise, it is simply …
To strap, or not to strap, that is the question. That’s the concept we shall be exploring in this essay. Someone raised a concern about a pattern she’d noticed among Ghanaian LBQ women. Apparently, many of …
