#LimitlessAfricans: PO, Afro-Queer Congolese (Shot in Mons, Belgium)Q. What would you have to say to
#LimitlessAfricans: PO, Afro-Queer Congolese (Shot in Mons, Belgium)Q. What would you have to say to people who say that being LGBTQ is “un-African”?“Whiteness, that social and political construction and power, is the only un-African thing. As a kid I grew up with people telling me that punk and rock is not a black thing and I know it’s not true, we just get erased. And since an early age I understood that people make us disappear until our identity is represented as a really small tiny box. And I know that culturally African people are way bigger than that. So queerness, besides vocabulary matters, is not a white invention, it’s a reality including for many African people, and African people are many things. I mean we could debate about history and how anything related to queerness as been erased, as been colonized, but the truth is - even if we talk about it, at the end nothing can remove my Africanness from myself. It can’t be about queerness not being African because it has nothing to do with it. It’s not a fight between both. And I will never support that idea of a really small box for all African people - that’s a lie.”- PO (she/they, IG: @po.b.k.lomami, Twitter: @lomamipo, Facebook: Po B. K. Lomami, Website: www.turbonegresse.org)Website: www.limitlessafricans.comDonate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=48VSXUG4RBZVG -- source link
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