Robert Jones Jr. and Laird Hunt talk tragedies and overlooked histories
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Queerness in Africa
In many of the unities that lived in pre colonial africa, queerness was just as normal as heterosexuality. In their own autonomy, they are able to take back some of their humanity by showing each other the gentlest and kindest versions of love. That is almost a holy place for them. The story is mostly said in mississippi, but it ranges widely, really, around the worldh was it important for you to set change in africa?
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