#zimbabwe

[makingqueerhistory]

Zimbabwean government backs plan to protect rights of intersex people

In Zimbabwe, the government has started a legal reform process to recognise and protect the rights of intersex people. This comes two years

In Zimbabwe, the government has started a legal reform process to recognise and protect the rights of intersex people. This comes two years after Kenya’s Supreme Court allowed the registration of intersex organisations, and earlier this year officially recognised intersex as a third gender. For many Zimbabweans, especially queer communities, this is a step in the right direction. Activists say it could help protect intersex people from discrimination and harmful medical practices, while also moving the country closer to acknowledging LGBTQ rights.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The world is oftentimes such an ugly place, but sometimes it can be so beautiful.

Like, when two choirs, one from Croatia and the other from Zimbabwe, met on the opposite sides of a Lisbon subway station and both sang to each other.

I unfortunately do not know what the Zimbabwe children choir sang to them (although it was so beautiful), but the Croatian klapa Kastav sang 'Kuća puna naroda' (a house full of people).

And let my reward be a house full of people, my life, give me a voice, so I can embrace you with songs.

Video source: Irena Grdinić

[folkfashion]

Ndebele woman, Zimbabwe, by atribecalledzimbabwe

[vangoghcore]

by Wolkmar Ventzel

[lascitasdelashoras]

Nick Brandt, Zimbabwe, 2020

[illustratus]

The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls by Thomas Baines

[unbfacts]

Nzou, a female elephant in a Zimbabwean reserve, shuns other elephants and has been the leader of a buffalo herd for decades. Over the years she has killed many male buffaloes who challenged her leadership.