Author: Angel Lovely
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Her work says we are possible, we are worthy
Rasna Warah was a bold African writer. I purposefully don’t use the term fearless as I doubt most people are. She wrote and she shared her work, and her portfolio is something to be proud of. I hope that as she passed, she was proud and content with her work. It is something to be…
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My Home Buries Bodies
Home can be a steady ground when your life is shifting sands. It is to me at least. Cutting lineages from your skin has consequences. It takes effort. It takes more bleeding than you think possible. Takes ritualistic return to truths that sometimes feel like a lie. It sometimes means walking around with no ground…
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Debunk Speaks To Beloved Strangers
(Koko, Udo, Karwitha, Mercy, Kabi and Waiyaki) Conversations With Queer Africans On Family and Friendship 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…
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Mutilated Home (On Gender Dysphoria)
I dream of plains of skin; black velvet plains with horizontal perturbed scars when I look at my chest. I dream of a body not yet here. I dream of movement through bodies. Mutilating and cutting to fit me. To mark me. To mark the existence of myself in this body. For this body to…
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Family Is Plasticine. Do We Have A Choice?
To the children of families, you no longer call yours, This note was written to me by someone that held my heart with care. I never saw her again but it didn’t matter. They were one of the first people that would hold my truths as truths. Some of us know the violence born in…