NOR Interviews: Nick Mwaluko

Nick Mwaluko talks about transitioning from female to male after immigrating to the United States from Kenya.

“Could I have lived in the other form? I still would have  clean water…the three meals a day.”

Nick Mwaluko was born in Kenya and currently lives in New York City.
He was interviewed in New York City. Nick has also written for the Huffington Post and further shed light on who he is in the article “Becoming a Man“.

 

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BIO:

Nick Mwalukowas born in Tanzania, East Africa and raised in Kenya. After arriving to New York City, Nick entered into Columbia University on fellowship. Transitioning from female to male in his third year of study, he remained on the Dean’s List and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Nick’s play WAAFRIKA, which is about a Kenyan woman’s affair with a white female PeaceCorps Volunteer, premiered with critical acclaim and has won numerous awards. He is finishing his Masters in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Playwriting from Columbia University.

Photos of Nick Mwaluko: Sulai Lopez
Photos of Selly Thiam: Olive Demetrius

NOR Interviews: Notisha Massaquoi

Notisha Massaquoi is originally from Sierra Leone and currently lives in Canada.
She was interviewed in Toronto, Canada.

“I felt my silence enabled her to be murdered in that way…”

Notisha Massaquoi talks about Fanny Ann Eddy, the lesbian activist who changed her life.

FannyAnn Eddy
(1974-2004)
In 2004, FannyAnn Eddy, an LGBT activist from Sierra Leone, West Africa was murdered in the offices of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association. The news of her murder circulated around the world and was a turning point for Selly Thiam, a Senegalese lesbian living in the United States. To honor the African QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) spirit that Fanny Ann embodied, she began collecting the oral histories of QLGBT Africans from the African Continent and in the Diaspora.

In 2006, None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa (NOR), an audio based oral history project was created to archive these oral histories.

Since then, None on Record has grown to a six person production crew working to bring these important testimonies to the world. Currently NOR has collected stories in Canada, South Africa and the United States.

Our Mission is to document the hopes, struggles, challenges and joy of being a QLGBT African. The None on Record archive exist to tell the stories of Africans in their own voices.

A new episode of None On Record will be broadcast every Monday at www.iloveupeople.com. You can also find out more about NOR at www.noneonrecord.com

Notisha Massaquoi Photo Credit: Olive Demetrius