What Homosexuality Is Not!

With ignorance comes fear - from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance. - Kathleen Patel

Earlier this week, I shared the above quote on my social network pages to challenge people to educate themselves when it came to LGBTI issues and rights. I say this because so many of us have chosen to hate and discriminate with no backing. Here I am, helping you to educate yourself and hopefully it will lead to acceptance.

Meet Kate Kamunde

Kate Kamunde

Introduce yourself. Who are you? What do you do?

My name is Kate Kamunde. I am an activist with the LBT community in Kenya. I work for Artists For Recognition and Acceptance (AFRA-Kenya), an organization of lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) women that advocate for the rights of sexual minorities through using the arts. I am also an artist; writer, poet, musician and song writer. I use these arts to bring to the fore pertinent issues within the LGBTI community in Kenya.

International Women's Day (IWD)

International Women's Day (IWD) is a day marked globally on March 8th every year. This year's theme is Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures.

The LGBTI Community

Recently, I came across this great magazine and started to read it online, it is called Identity Kenya, it is the voice of Kenya's LGBTIQ and sex work community. For those of you who have followed my blog over the years, this is a group of people I have not addressed. I have nothing against them, I think I was in the dark and not realizing that they are a group that require support and a voice like any other in our society.

Male Sex Workers in Kenya

There has been a lot of talk on the social networking sites and blogosphere about commercial sex work in Nairobi and especially after a docu-series on one of the local TV stations about men who have sex with men (MSM) and male sex workers. The series got various reactions from the Kenyan society with some shocked at the reality of sex work in Kenya, some were outraged as to why it was being broadcast and some, weren't sure what to think.

World Social Work Day - March 20th

'We commit wholeheartedly and urgently to people having power over their own lives to address the root cause of oppression and inequality to work together with others to create a more socially-just and fair world that we will be proud to leave for future generations.' 

In the Headlines V

Reprieve for Deaf Patients as Sign Language Training Programme for Nurses Launched: A programme has been launched to train medical nurses in Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) to assist deaf patients more effectively. I believe this is a great step in ensuring that hearing impaired patients can be understood when seeking medical treatment.

Happy New Year!

‘The new year is set before us like an unwritten volume - all its pages blank. Let us write upon each day's page things that at the end of the year we will look upon with rejoicing rather than regret.’

Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

Note from Blogger: I came across this article and I figured I should share it with you as the year ends and another starts. I hope you can learn something from it and start a new year with no regrets.

Family Law 101 [Part I]

Family law is that branch of the law that relates to marriage and the rights and responsibilities that parties have within that marriage. It also covers a large area of children's rights with respect to the care that they need within the family. The above is by no means a comprehensive description of this law, however it gives one a general overview to what it entails.