Now, I am sure the poor woman in her grave… is shocked ever… - Stella Nyanzi

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Now, I am sure the poor woman in her grave… is shocked every time I perform my own version of womanhood and femininity

Stella Nyanzi

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Stella Nyanzi (born 16 June 1974) is a Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health. She was arrested in 2017 for insulting the Ugandan president. In January 2022, she was accepted to live in Germany on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, with her three children.

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I use nudity because it's a weapon of the weak and the poor. The cost to pay is called shame, but I think I'm not ashamed of my body. It's a beautiful big mama body, and I am glad to deploy it for war.

I am aching for the world I live in to become a better place for my children.

I wear lipstick, I speak like an academic, I take off my bra… and this is usually not what politicians look like.

Now, I am sure the poor woman in her grave… is shocked every time I perform my own version of womanhood and femininity - Stella Nyanzi

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