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Limit(less) Project: Sarah
Sarah: Lesbian Ugandan (Sweden)
Q. How would you describe your style?
“My clothing style? Oh god, it’s very mixed. I dress depending on the weather and mood. I’m not so strict with dress code in that way, if i want to wear a gown on a tuesday because i feel like it I will, so I wear depending on the weather and my mood. I wear a lot of African prints and my own design as well casual street wear (www.kalunjidesign.com).”
– Sarah (Lesbian Ugandan, She/Her, IG: @kalunji040 FB: www.facebook.com/nakiito)
Donate to support the project: HERE
About Limit(less)
Limit(less) is a photography project by Mikael Owunna (@owning-my-truth) documenting the fashion and style of LGBTQ African Immigrants (1st and 2nd generation) in diaspora. As LGBTQ Africans, we are constantly told that being LGBTQ is somehow “un-African,” and this rhetoric is a regular part of homophobic and transphobic discourse in African communities. This line of thinking, however, is patently false and exists an artifact of colonization of the African continent. Identities which would now be categorized as “LGBTQ” have always existed, and being LGBTQ does not make us “less” African.
Limit(less) explores how LGBTQ African immigrants navigate their identities and find ways to overcome the supposed “tension” between their LGBTQ and African identities through their fashion and style. The project seeks to visually deconstruct the colonial binary that has been set up between LGBTQ and African identities, which erases the lives and experiences of LGBTQ Africans. #LimitlessAfricans
Donate to support the project: HERE
Website:
limitlessafricans.com/
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/limitlessafricans
Tumblr:
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