TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohammed,Azeenarh
AU  - Nagarajan,Chitra
AU  - Aliyu,Rafeeat
TI  - She called me woman: Nigeria's queer women speak 
SN  - 9781911115595
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Abuja
PB  - Cassava Republic
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Africa
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Sex behaviour
KW  - Women's studies
KW  - Gender
N1  - Formerly CIP
N2  - She Called Me Woman is a collection of first-hand accounts by a community telling their stories on their own terms. This engaging and groundbreaking collection of queer women's narratives includes stories of first time love and curiosity, navigating same-sex feelings and spirituality, growing up gender non-conforming and overcoming family and society's expectations. What does it means to be a queer Nigerian? How does one embrace the label of `woman'? While some tell of self-acceptance, others talk of friendship and building a home in the midst of the anti-same sex marriage law. The narrators range from those who knew they were gay from a very early age to those who discovered their attraction to the same sex later in life. The stories challenge the stereotypes of what we assume is lesbian, bisexual, gay, and *trans in Nigeria and they offer us a raw, first-hand look into the lives and realities of our family, friends, neighbours and co-workers who are queer

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