Her work says we are possible, we are worthy
Angel Lovely
Rasna Warah was a bold African writer. I purposefully don’t use the term fearless as I doubt most people are.
Rasna Warah was a bold African writer. I purposefully don’t use the term fearless as I doubt most people are.
Home can be a steady ground when life shifts. Cutting ties has consequences and takes more effort than expected. Leaving felt like falling into a black hole, relentless in its purge. I’ve witnessed mothers hating their children and the ways people ask what they did wrong. But I am me. I see, I name. This community ignores its dark truths; they just don’t want them named. I want us to care.
A series of interviews done over Instagram, voice notes and calls with beloved strangers. Each respondent is in conversation with Angel Lovely and in turn, in conversation with each other. This is a documentation of possibility and reality. Queer African folk on the continent mull on queer friendship and family. We get to live such lives. People like us can choose. You are dearly loved.
I dream of plains of skin; black velvet plains with horizontal perturbed scars when I look at my chest. I
To the children of families, you no longer call yours, This note was written to me by someone that held
