Stephen Okwany
Stephen Okwany is a proactive Queer Artivist from Kisumu, Kenya. He is passionate about advancing equality and non-discrimination by deconstructing internalized and structural homophobia and anti-gender practices orchestrated by illiberal populists and their far-right movements. Kenya is still one of the African countries that uphold the archaic colonial Penal Code that discriminates against consensual same-sex relationships, resulting in the deliberate exclusion of LGBTQ+ community members from participatory processes that inform the country’s agenda. His vision is a world that is appreciative and cognizant of Queer lived realities, and which affirms LGBTQ+ community members in their true authentic selves. Inclusion and [...]