Ola Osaze

The Basics

Name

Ola Osaze

Location

Oakland, CA

About Me

About Me

Ola Osaze is a transfag feminist of Edo and Yoruba descent, who grew up in Nigeria. Ola is a community activist who works for Transgender Law Center and has been involved with the Audre Lorde Project, Uhuru Wazobia, one of the first LGBT groups for African immigrants in New York City, Queers for Economic Justice and Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Ola was recently admitted to the 2015 Voices of Our Nation Arts workshop, the only writers’ conference in the country with a multi-genre focus on writers of color as students and teachers. Ola’s writings have appeared in Black Public Media, Black Girl Dangerous, Black Looks, Autostraddle, Trans Atlantic Times, Trans Queers: A Transfags Sex Journal, and anthologies, including Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, Queer African Reader, and the soon to be released Outside the XY: Queer, Brown Masculinity. Some of Ola’s rantings can be found at https://yorubaftm.wordpress.com/

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Queer, Trans*, Genderqueer, Pansexual, Sexually Fluid, Boi