Results for: book
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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Collection Makes Space for Many Selves
This is a book to be read and re-read, like all true stories.
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Queer Naija Lit: “Under the Udala Trees” Honors the Past and Paints the Future With Hope
In light of current conditions for queer Nigerians — and global conditions facing queer people — a book like 2015’s Under the Udala Trees is ever-timely.
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Queer Naija Lit: “The Lives of Great Men” Interrogates the Measures of Masculinity and Greatness
My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.
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Queer Naija Lit: Hausa Is a Language of Love in Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”
To be human is to be, or not. To love, or not.
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Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair
As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.
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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “The Death of Vivek Oji” Delves Into What Is Born in Death
Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates something entirely new in Vivek.
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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “Pet” and “Bitter” Explore the Costs of a Different World
A new world isn’t possible without people believing it is.
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Queer Naija Lit: “We Are Flowers” Documents the Beauty and Resilience of Nigeria’s Queer Community
We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.
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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From
Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.