February 27, 2026 ARUA CITY – In a distressing turn of events that highlights the targeted harassment of the LGBTQ+ community in Uganda, Wendy Faith (22) and Alesi Diana Denise (21) were re-arrested today at 3:00 PM, just hours after being released from police custody this morning. The two women, who were initially detained on […]
February 2026
Book Review: Boy From Mukono: My Defining Moments by Farid Ulsan Bugembe This memoir, set against the red soil and unrelenting heat of Uganda, is an honest account of what it costs to be queer and alive in a country that would rather you were neither. It is not a comfortable read. It is not […]
A society reflects its people, and a broken society reflects its broken people, and the people, in turn, determine what is right and wrong, and in most cases, right and wrong are illogically subjective. Therefore, in such a society of subjectivity, everything right or logical might be discarded as wrong or unacceptable, and this is […]
Some books we read merely to pass time, just as we read newspapers, quickly and inattentively. Others we read for purgation: to loosen the grip of self-imposed prisons. Indubitably, many of us are prisoners: societal prisoners, family prisoners, mythical prisoners. Or yet, someone out there, out of hatred for our identity, has enslaved us, and […]
Across Africa, the loudest cries of “protect the children” are too often followed by silence when children are actually harmed — but fury when consenting queer adults exist. Across the African continent, a familiar refrain echoes from pulpits, political rallies, and parliamentary debates: we must protect the children. It is a powerful phrase — emotionally […]
I flipped the last pages of this book on a bus while returning from somewhere, and two questions lingered in my head long after I closed it: Where will you be when the world heals from homophobia? And when will the world finally accept that people are people, regardless of their sexuality? I come from a country, Uganda, […]
In August 2023, something shifted in Uganda. Not quietly, not gently — but with the heavy, unmistakable thud of a law landing on real lives. The Anti-Homosexuality Act had just come into force, and for months many in our community had lived with a question sitting in our throats: Who will be first? Who would […]