Ebook {Epub PDF} She Called Me Woman by Azeenarh Mohammed

She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan. This stirring and intimate collection brings together 25 first-hand accounts to paint a vivid portrait of what it means to be a queer Nigerian woman. These beautifully told stories of resistance and resilience reveal the realities of a community that will no longer be invisible. Through first-hand accounts, She Called Me Woman challenges us to rethink what it means to be a Nigerian ‘woman’, negotiating relationships, money, sexuality and freedom, identifying outside the gender binary, and the difficulties of achieving hopes and dreams under the constraints of societal expectations and legal terrorism/5(31).  · She Called Me Woman. By (author) Azeenarh Mohammed, Rafeeat Aliyu. “We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.”. This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives to paint a vivid portrait of what it means to be a queer Nigerian bltadwin.ru Author: Azeenarh Mohammed, Rafeeat Aliyu.

From £ 2, View products. She Called Me Woman. Azeenarh Mohammed, Rafeeat Aliyu. "We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.". This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives to paint a vivid. She Called Me Woman by Azeenarh Mohammed A book like this cannot be rated on a scale because its importance far outweighs any personal preference the reader may have regarding its purpose/content. That said, I offer no rating at all because, at least for me, where I was taken in by the bravery of each. On other occasions the models are queer activists, like the three times painted Azeenarh Mohammed, who alongside Rafeeat Aliyu edited She Called Me Woman (, Cassava Republic), a collection of thirty stories of queer Nigerian women.

Another person who looked out for me was I___. She was a poet and a dancer. She was the mother I never had and she made me super strong. She was a phenomenal person. She taught me dance. She taught me choreography. She taught me to be bold about who I was. She called me 'Woman' even before I started to. Book Discussion and Review #7. Through first-hand accounts, She Called Me Woman challenges us to rethink what it means to be a Nigerian 'woman', negotiating relationships, money, sexuality and freedom, identifying outside the gender binary, and the difficulties of achieving hopes and dreams under the constraints of societal expectations and legal terrorism.