To mark BRITTLE PAPER‘s 7th anniversary in 2017, we organised two conversations on our Facebook page. The second, themed “Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria: The Language of Emotional Truth,” took place on 5 August 2017 and was an insightful, urgent conversation about queerness and its exploration in Nigerian literature. Our guests were: Romeo Oriogun, winner of the 2017 […]
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14: An Anthology of Queer Art | Vol. 2: “The Inward Gaze”
A few days ago, we announced the gorgeous cover for the LGBTQI art collective 14’s second volume, which featured snippets from Taiye Selasi and 2016 Brunel Prize winner Gbenga Adesina. The anthology is now here, as a downloadable e-book. A group whose editors use pseudonyms, 14 took its name from the 14-year jail term prescribed […]
See the Gorgeous Cover for LGBTQI Art Collective 14’s Volume 2, Featuring Snippets from Taiye Selasi and Gbenga Adesina
The Nigerian queer art collective 14, which is set to release its second volume this week, has shared its cover, featuring snippets from Taiye Selasi and 2016 Brunel Prize winner Gbenga Adesina. The cover image is by the South African photographer Mal Muga, with the design by the Nigeria visual artist Osinachi, whose work we’ve […]
14: Statement from the Nigerian LGBTQ Literary Collective
Back in January, we published We Are Flowers, the debut anthology of writing and visual art by the Nigerian LGBTQ literary collective, 14, which took its name from the 14-year jail term prescribed by the country’s anti-gay law. The project was met with astounding reception. An essay from the anthology was shortlisted for the Brittle […]
Brittle Paper Anniversary Event: “Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria” | A Conversation on Facebook
On August 1, 2017, Brittle Paper will be seven years old. To mark our anniversary, we are organising a series of events, among which are Facebook conversations with writers, editors and founders of literary initiatives. This is the second of our anniversary conversations. * For decades, queer Nigerians—lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, transsexual—have been nearly absent […]
Placards | By Chisom Okafor | Poetry | 14: An Anthology of Queer Art
Your mother’s hair used to be a mass of fine threads that touched the back of her shoulders, curving into a cluster of curls. She fed them thick portions of cheap oil each morning, scrubbed hard then softly, with hair brush. Once, she said, “When yours grow, Miriam, a man will find it attractive, then […]
African Literary Digest: 8 Must-Reads from January, 2017
We ended 2016 with a compilation of our best pieces of the year. The first month of 2017 is gone but it wasn’t arid: there was writing that caught our attention, and both the LGBTIQ group 14 and Afreada magazine released beautiful anthologies. Here are our must-read selections, an unranked list. They’re all online so […]
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