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gender-terms
SEXUAL DIVERSITY
A Quick Guide to Gender Terms Every Ally Should Know

Just like sexuality, gender identity is a lot broader and more nuanced than we as a society seem to acknowledge. The truth is, in an ideal world, labels shouldn’t be that important. We’d all live in a world where everyone could exist – fully, as themselves, without having to constantly explain or define what side of the “side” of the spectrum they fall.

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Gender Identity
All you need to know about Gender Identity

Gender Expression is a person’s behaviour, interests, mannerisms, and appearance that are often linked with gender specifically masculinity or femininity.

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SEXUAL DIVERSITY
What is Demisexuality?

Sexuality is diverse as humans are and some Nigerians have used the term Demisexual to

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asexual
Sexual Orientation
What it means to be Asexual and Nigerian

From the time Yinka was 16 years old, he already had a strong feeling that something was different. Even though a majority of his hormone-led secondary school friends had begun to brazenly explore their sexualities and the gratification that came from varying sexual activities, Yinka just wasn’t roused by the thought or desire to have sex.

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Gender Identity
Asexuality: What it is and isn’t

“Sex does not make you whole” Jean said to teenager, Florence during a counselling session in episode 5 of the second season of the British television show, Sex Education. Florence had stormed Jean’s office exclaiming loudly, “I don’t want to have sex”. She had made it clear in a previous episode that sex was not her thing and as she painted a picture of her feelings to Jean, describing her lack of connection to the act, one thing became clear, Florence was asexual.

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pronoun-lgbtq
Gender Identity
Call Me by My Pronoun

“They’re always changing it. One second its LGBT and the next, you’re seeing all 26 alphabets and you don’t even know what they stand for. I don’t have a problem with them. It’s just a lot you know – I can’t keep up,” said my co-worker during a heated conversation. While her statement might be offensive, it also mirrors the myopic thought process most people have when the discourse is geared towards gender identity and sexual orientation.

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gender
SEXUAL DIVERSITY
This thing called gender

“Ta ni bro e?” With that statement, Bobrisky finally came out as transgender in what has become her hallmark, ‘Yoruba Aunty’, fashion— and homophobic Nigerians on social media, in their unbelievably ignorant manner, came for her with words like ‘shim’, ‘he-she’ and other derogatory words.

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Sexual Orientation
How to support a queer person when they come out

In this article, we will use “queer” as an umbrella term for every member of the LGBTQ community which includes lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, asexual and other non-heterosexual orientations.

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Sexual Orientation
Importance of safe spaces for queer people

We hear and say often that human beings are social animals, but do we really understand what it means?

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Sexual Orientation
5 tips on how to combat gay shame

Being gay and living in a country like Nigeria where homophobia has been institutionalized through its Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA) means often looking over your shoulders and living in perpetual fear.

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