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Apply to join 2022 Cape Town workshop on LGBTQI+ reporting in Africa

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Taboom Media, a global media development and monitoring group, invites reporters, editors, publishers, and bloggers based in Africa and proficient in English to apply for this free, all-expenses-paid reporting workshop on covering LGBTQI+ issues and religion in Cape Town, South Africa. Participants must be open-minded to the issues at hand and affiliated with news … [Read more...] about Apply to join 2022 Cape Town workshop on LGBTQI+ reporting in Africa

Editorial: Liberia’s existential human rights crisis must be nipped in the bud

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Liberia is in a crisis.  It is a crisis that is not unique to mankind but Liberia, like many countries on the continent and beyond, continues to live in a state of denial, pretending that it is not so.  This crisis border on the treatment of Liberia’s sexual and gender minorities. This unprecedented denial and feigned blindness have led to the violation of … [Read more...] about Editorial: Liberia’s existential human rights crisis must be nipped in the bud

Gay man struggles to survive in Liberia amid beating and bullying

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By Gboko Stewart, gboko@journalrage.org Monrovia-Mohammed Sheriff (not his real name) still remembers the day his mother disowned him when she discovered her first child was gay.  “She asked me to moved out and said I was no longer her son,” he said. “She said she can’t have a child who’s into such sexual behavior.”  Petite in height, Sheriff, 22, who had … [Read more...] about Gay man struggles to survive in Liberia amid beating and bullying

Modeling with brains: November Cole struts the runway with storm

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By Gboko Stewart, gboko@journalrage.org Cole says working with some designers can be difficult as it can be when doing a fitting. A designer from Ghana told me I could not walk in his clothes because I don’t have six-packs." I’ve showcased for so many designers – Alieu Bah, Nani and I’m the only male model at Jojo 2 best. I did a magazine shoot for Ghana … [Read more...] about Modeling with brains: November Cole struts the runway with storm