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 […]
Book Review
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 […]
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, […]