Speaker: Unoma
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Unoma Azuah is a professor of English at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, Valdosta, GA, USA.  She’s a scholar, writer and activist. Her research and activism focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights in Nigeria.  Some of her book projects include Blessed Body: Secret Lives of LGBT Nigerians and Wedged Between Man and God: Queer West African Women’s stories.  Some of her collaborative works with organizations like the International Gay, Lesbian, and Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and PEN America led to reports and book projects like “Nowhere to Turn: Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa” and “Silenced Voices, Threatened Lives: The Impact of Nigeria’s Anti-LGBTI Law on Freedom of Expression.” Some of her critical essays include: “Poetry, Religion, and Empowerment in Nigerian Lesbian Self-Writing,” The African Journal of Gender and Religion, vol. 25, no. 1, 2019. “Nigeria.” The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History: the history of LGBTQ, edited by Howard Chiang, Anjali Arondekar, Marc Epprecht, et al. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Gale, A Cengage Company, 2019.  “Visual Activism for the African LGBT: a look at the documentary ‘Born This Way,’” A Journal of African Literature Today: 36, Queer Theory in African Fiction and Film, 2018. “Celebrating Area Scatter, the drag Queen that Transgressed Gender Roles in South-East Nigeria,” in Reclaiming Afrikan: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities, edited by Zethu Matebeni, Modjaji Books, 2014. “The Video Closet: Nollywood’s Gay-Themed Movies,” Transition, vol. 106, no. 1, 2012. “Extortion and Blackmail of Nigerian Lesbians and Bisexual Women,” in Nowhere to Turn: Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Ryan Thoreson & Sam Cook, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2011.