Happy to share the latest edition of a research project I worked on together with a colleague, focusing on digital violence in Ethiopia. (highlights the patterns of harassment, surveillance, outing, and stigma against queer individuals.) genderit.org/feminist-tal...

Discounted registration is not compensation. If an organization truly value art as advocacy, healing, and change, they need to value the artists behind it with fair pay. Isn’t compensation equity in practice? How do you ask for art projects and treat artists as customers?

Women Deliver@womendeliver.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎨 Attention artists and collectives from around the world! Do you want your work showcased on the global stage at #WD2026 in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia? At the world’s largest gathering for gender equality, art will take center stage as a force for advocacy and change. 🗓️ Applications are open 👇

I've been engaged in a research project for over a year with an incredible research partner I'm deeply grateful for. Our work focuses on online violence against queer individuals in Ethiopia. Our reflection has finally been published: genderit.org/index.php/fe...

Picked my favorites 💐 ✨ Tulips ✨ Dalton Farms, NJ

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

First half marathon ✅

I can’t believe I am actually running my first marathon this Sunday 🎧🏃🏾‍♀️✨

Why queer archive? Because queer stories shall start with queerness not queerphobia.

Key dates on the evolution of anti homosexuality advocacy and online violence against LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia: 1/

Fuck this fucking fascist fuckery.

In the face of relentless disinformation and the shattering weight of systemic denial, queer Africans continue to create safe spaces for themselves. Every quiet search for connection and every hidden gathering is an act of defiance — a refusal to be erased.

"Now or never" - @thecontinent.org. Thread: While Europe was getting scolded at its own Munich Security Conference, African leaders were in Ethiopia for the annual African Union summit. As @simonallison.bsky.social explained, it was a critical summit, with Africa facing a new Trump led world order.

Publishing this during black history month is DIABOLICAL. LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!! The NYT is so wild.

Heather@heathermikloski.bsky.social · last yr.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/m...

🤩 Ethiopian and Eritrean queer stories to the streets. To be seen. To be heard. A song of resistance ✨ Billboard from Exposure Photography Festival. (📸 Mitra Samavaki) Calgary, Alberta

My photography project Wonderfully Made, which highlights the Ethiopian and Eritrean queer community in the US, is featured in this year’s Exposure Photography Festival and opened last night ✨ If you are in Calgary don’t miss it - at Contemporary Calgary.

“I grew up in a very religious household where my parents often expressed that they didn’t believe the LGBTQ+ community deserved equal rights. Yet one of God’s commandments is “love your neighbor as yourself.” Why would you deny your neighbor the same rights you have? 1/

“I can still see you if I close my eyes and focus, but that’s the only place you exist now. You’re a dream I had to let go of, even though I didn’t want to. Because more than anything, I wanted you to be safe and happy—and I can’t promise you that.” open.substack.com/pub/soniawit...

A letter to the daughter I’ll never have

My love,

open.substack.com

Even decolonization would need to borrow decolonization just to decolonize academic spaces smh

Okay I really like The Later Daters.

"I wish the war would end and we could return to our homes in peace." A Christian Palestinian girl in Gaza wishes for peace on Christmas Day amid Israel's war, at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.

✨ All of this!!

Meron Estefanos@meron.bsky.social · 2y ago

I see a lot of posts here on Blusky with "here is so nice, it's like the old Twitter" type of posts. Like the old Twitter was a kind place to be. The old Twitter ignored any abuse report we made, us minority people were left to receive abuse and death threats for years on without any protection.

“It should drive us all beyond rage that revolutionary imaginations almost always stop outside the home. … unless we topple that tyrant in our minds, our bedrooms, and on our street corners – our revolution has not even begun.” ✨ @monaeltahawy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What comes next for Syria’s women? A revolution that doesn’t free them is no revolution at all | Mona Eltahawy

The women celebrating the destruction of jails and dungeons will now be wondering why their own oppression cannot also be dismantled, says author Mona Eltahawy

theguardian.com

😂😂😂😂 they are only homophobic if you are poor 😂😂😂

One of my participants became homeless after coming out to her family. Eventually, she managed to relocate to another state. Later, her family reached out, asking if they could stay with her while visiting her city. She told them ‘My house is gay.’ Audacity

Kemigisa@kemigisa.bsky.social · 2y ago

African homophobia doesn't extend to the material needs of the said homophobe. Relatives will gladly take that gay money. Straight people will gladly “forge gayness to" Bette their material well-being through immigration applications. In this essay, i will...

People in #Syria are still opening prisons

Qusay Noor@qusaynoor.net · 2y ago

The search for detainees in #Saidnaya prison in #Syria is still ongoing. The prison is very large and requires access to its plans and the method of opening the sections that are difficult to discover with complex underground floors.

AMEN!

"About 1.4 million people have left online dating in the past year as experts say users see it as a chore rather than social activity" "a contributing factor in the decline of online dating could be a sense of detachment from reality and fatigue at the process." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘It feels like admin’: why are people falling out of love with dating apps?

About 1.4 million people have left online dating in the past year as experts say users see it as a chore rather than social activity

theguardian.com

In 2019, an LGBTQ+ tour operator (Toto Tours) based in the U.S. announced a 16-day tour to Ethiopia, which included a visit to the Lalibela Church. The tour was eventually canceled due to threats and a widespread hate campaign on Facebook.