Story telling will let those that come after us know that we existed, they will learn from our mistakes to avoid making them.
March 2022
Kuchu Times Media Group joins the rest of the world to commemorate this powerful day and our message to the transgender community is, “You have always been visible to us!”
The ability to get so passionately behind a cause without care to who else joins her is partly inspired by people like Kasha, Pepe, David Kato (RIP) , Victor Mukasa Denis Wamala and Val Kalende; the small community of almost beaten people standing up and daring to stare their powerful enemies in the face and WINNING! Part of her power comes from this work because she stood in; not with the community but in the community of these extremely marginalized people and as a team they won.
Racial discrimination has sadly been noticed in the current conflict in Ukraine.
Our #WCW for this week Aisha-Ashe our correspondent from Kasese who works with Twilight Support Initiative. Ashe shared bits of her life with us below.
Ally ship in all its forms expires without effort. You must live it. Time and again. It is not an IDENTITY, it is ACTION.
SO today we celebrate.
A police officer told me he is tired of dealing with homosexuals and I should consider going back to my country
She envisions a Uganda where service provision is not at all affiliated to sexual orientation and gender identity, the state needs to recognize that before we are gay or transgender we are Ugandans with constitutional rights.
The struggle for equality and freedom has not been an easy one for women let alone LBQT Ugandans.
“Pap smears have been highly effective as a (cervical cancer) screening tool for women, so why not do the same thing for the anal canal?” Says Peter Leone, MD infectious Diseases expert at UNC medical center.