AfroQueer Podcast is a podcast run by None On Record, telling the stories of Queer Africans from across the continent and diaspora. The podcast, hosted by Selly Thiam and produced by Aida-Holly Nambi celebrates queer love, explores the laws affecting queer lives, migration, media, race, class, censorship, family and sex.
Ahead of its upcoming third season, AfroQueer Podcast recently released a special episode of the podcast focused on the LGBTQ+ experience across the continent. The COVID-19 special episode revealed the experience of immigrants and people of colour in Sweden, the effect of the lockdown on LGBTQ+ persons in West Africa, and the effect of self-quarantine on Queer relationships in Boston.
Neela Ghoshal, Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program says about the podcast, “The wide-ranging answers surfaced in the podcast reflect the different realities faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. There is no singular ‘LGBT experience’ of Covid-19. United Nations agencies, activists, and some governments have rightly identified particular vulnerabilities of LGBT people that need to be taken into account in the pandemic response. But levels of vulnerability vary according to factors like economic status, immigration status, and where one calls home.”
You can listen to the 25-minute long episode of the AfroQueer Podcast here.
