LGBTQI+ Conversion Therapies Do Not Work

Anima Adjepong — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:15:40 +0000

Pseudo-scientific therapies that claim they can “fix” people who experience same-gender attraction have been proven to be ineffective and inhumane. Why, then, are Ghanaian members of the LGBTQI+ community still being subjected to this form of violence, with the support of organised religion and government? asks Dr Anima Adjepong.

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“We Do Not Want Her Kind Here”– Finding Queer Belonging in a Ghanaian Immigrant Community

Anima Adjepong — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:43:26 +0000

“Is this one of your daughter’s friends?” I overheard a woman I did not know ask in a language I only vaguely understand. To the woman’s relief, her interlocutor, let’s call her Auntie Ama, responded “No.”
“Good, because we do not want her kind here,” the woman said.

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LGBTQI+ Conversion Therapies Do Not Work

“We Do Not Want Her Kind Here”– Finding Queer Belonging in a Ghanaian Immigrant Community