29/06/2026
No Borders Between Us: Q***r Liberation is African Liberation. This July, we are thinking about belonging and who it is withheld from.
Afrophobia, hate crimes, and q***r exclusion do not exist separately. They are produced by the same systems that decide who belongs, whose movement is criminalised, whose body is treated as a threat, and whose life is considered worth protecting. These realities shape everyday life—in our streets, workplaces, schools, communities, and even within q***r spaces. We believe it is impossible to talk about freedom, safety, or liberation without talking about the conditions that African migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are living under.
Across Africa, countries opened their borders, offered refuge, and sustained the struggle against apartheid. That history calls on us to ask difficult questions about what solidarity looks like today, and what it means when fellow Africans are met with suspicion, hostility, and violence instead of care.
For us, q***r liberation has always been about more than representation or visibility. It is about the right to move, to exist without fear, to build community, and to belong. Those rights cannot stop at a national border, nor can they depend on citizenship or nationality.
Throughout July, we will be sharing writing, conversations, community work, and resources that explore these connections and invite us to think more deeply about solidarity, accountability, and collective liberation.
Because there are no borders between our struggles. And there can be no q***r liberation without African liberation. ***rafrica
