I understand that it both is and is not my duty to deconstr… - Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile

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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.

Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile

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About Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile

Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile (born January 1988, also known as Kat Kai Kol-Kes) is a performance artist, musician, writer and LGBT activist from Botswana. She is known for being the first public figure from the country to openly identify as a transgender person. She is also the first person from Botswana to be named a TED Fellow.

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Alternative Names: Kat Kai Kol-Kes • Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile

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The world we live in is created and it’s been being created and it is still being created. So why can’t we take things that we assume are the building blocks of what we know about our lives, about every single thing that we trust, and turn them upside down just to be a bit more accommodating.

Freedom will come when all Batswana can assume and inhabit whatever gender and other identities they are comfortable with.

The core behind my work is to ensure that as Batswana we start discovering and learning from what we experience.

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