Freedom will come when all Batswana can assume and inhabit whatever gender and other identities they are comfortable with. - Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile

I understand that it both is and is not my duty to deconstruct and then reconstruct my government’s views on the validity of citizens like me whom colonial constitutions factored out and vilified.

If there is any place I don't belong, it's in a mind where the story of me starts with the branch of me being queer and not with my rural roots.

To truly understand that attaining accessible education, accessible healthcare, and ending poverty, means ensuring that we are cognizant of the voices and lives of people like me; whether it's people who are brown skinned, African, Indigenous, Queer identifying, disabled