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Eleazer Obeng, “The Devil’s Snare”: that silent, oppressive evil

2 Luglio 20202 Luglio 2020 Redazione

“The sun is up, it seems like a new day sigh. you are still here. It’s not. How did you get in? I cry. Hubbub waters my anxiety. Sprouting doubt, and the traumas of my past I thought I buried.” This poem, as Eleazer Obeng tells us, “was born as annotations in which I tried to make sense of a facade created to remove an empitenss that I felt inside and that I could not explain to myself”. Dennis, this is the name in real life, defines himself as a “gender fluid” and in Ghana, the country where he was born and lives, he is an activist for queer rights.

“I want humanity!” I want the little things you find shaming to do

24 Giugno 202015 Settembre 2022 Redazione

“Imagine you gathered all the courage and walked up to me? Me, that random girl sitting alone in the cafeteria
Me, that seemingly busy lady over a steaming cup of coffee at the cafe. Me, that swaggered teenager flocked by admirers, the envy of all. Imagine you just walked up to me and said “hi?” Imagine you gathered all the empathy and walked up to me?” Those are the first verses of a poem about solitude, depression, search for compassion.

Ghana: Botsyo, the paralympic athlete who defied the stigma

23 Giugno 202025 Luglio 2020 Antonella Sinopoli

Raphael Botsyo Nkegbe is a Ghanaian para-athlete. He made proud his country with many achievements and he is the first ghanaian para-athlete to qualify for the paralympic games in Tokyo 2020 (postponed to 2021). He won the T54 World Wheelchair 100m race with a new personal best of 14.22s at the Desert Challenge Games in Arizona, USA. In this interview he talks about committment in sport, struggle in life, and happiness with a fantastic family.

A new perspective, “Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies”

18 Giugno 202015 Settembre 2022 Antonella Sinopoli

A reading to understand how much the body can become the object of political actions and cultural supremacy. Why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate.

“Weak Pillars of Sanity”, silencing the drama running into the brain

17 Giugno 202015 Settembre 2022 Redazione

“My doctor walks in, hands out her gloved limb tainted with the multicolored silencers that she wants me to pill-pop to steady my weak pillars of sanity.” Those are the first verses of Ssekajja’s poem which goes through mental distress, alienation from society, sense of non-belonging and -maybe – a guilt feeling towards a family which cannot really understand him and his mind. Ronald is writer and performer of both English and Luganda.