With Gele Pride Flag, Adejoke Tugbiyele unites gay pride symbolism with material reference to her ho
With Gele Pride Flag, Adejoke Tugbiyele unites gay pride symbolism with material reference to her home country, Nigeria. Gele is the head scarf worn by Nigerian women for important events or functions and “a defining feature for the typical Nigerian woman… representative of femininity.” Tugbiyele sewed six of these fabrics together to form a large gay-pride flag, which helped to “affirm [her] queerness as a woman of Nigerian heritage, while also speaking to contemporary symbols (the rainbow) that affirm gay pride.” Tugbiyele produced the banner soon after the Nigerian government enacted legislation criminalizing same-sex relationships, and has since carried it in protests and gay pride parades in both Nigeria and the United States.Posted by Laura HillegasAdejoke Tugbiyele (Nigerian-American, born 1977). Gele Pride Flag, 2014. Collection of the artist. Photos courtesy Adejoke Tugbiyele. -- source link
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