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I spoke with Nana Akosua Hanson, feminist activist, journalist and founder of Let’s Talk Consent to learn more about her vision for a feminist future, the importance of art and media, and her activism that is based in Ghana—but is having a truly global impact.

Having connected with Drama Queens on the dancefloor in Accra, our founder Bethany Burgoyne was eager to learn more about the community of feminist-minded creatives on a mission to liberate and support women and the LGBTQ+ community.

On 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), join AWID’s global feminist community in a live conversation with queer feminist activists from Ghana. Learn about how queer and feminist collectives are organising to resist homophobia, and how you can be in solidarity with Ghanaian activists.

The bill has been proposed so it has not been passed. And it’s not law, right, it’s proposed. So the bill is called The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill. It’s a very, very dangerous bill, that would make being LGBTQIA or an ally illegal with up to 10 years in prison. It’s horrendous, I read it and it’s horrible.

The global discourse on consent continues to deepen the understandings of other violations of personal space and forms of sexual violence previously ignored by legal statutes and sociocultural constructs that underpin rape and domestic violence.

Coazy Beach Club, a non-profit organisation has collaborated with Drama Queens, a human rights activist group, to create awareness on plastic pollution.

Queer University is a participatory community video production program run by the Beijing Gender Health Education Institute (BGHEI), a Beijing-based NGO

The queer-feminist collective shares its actions and visions with the newly founded W’AHU Magazine, which celebrates Ghana’s diverse communities.

The coastline of Ghana provides essential habitat for three species of turtle: Olive Ridleys, Green Turtles and Leatherbacks. Loggerheads and Hawksbills also visit the country’s waters. Between September and January, turtles’ nest in the sand, where they lay up to 150 eggs each per season.