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Some thoughts on Ugandan parliament passing the Anti-Homosexuality Act. 🧵
I’ve seen two types of analyses: either the gay panic is really about something else (eg
@cobbo3
’s take). The other says that politicians are using the panic to manipulate inherently homophobic Ugandans.
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The unjust, evidentially dubious judgement against
@drstellanyanzi
is proof of the extent to which her radical politics threatens the figure & fetish of Museveni, Uganda’s untouchable “fount of honor”.
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The problem is: finding and attacking the queers hidden among you does nothing to make your life more livable. When the dust settles from this round of gay panic, queers won’t be the only victims: hetero Ugandans will also be brought deeper into the relations which oppress them.
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these are the cops not permitting me to observe the trail of comrade
@drstellanyanzi
as is my constitutional right.
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@MwesigyeFranks
How does my class privilege and childhood in exile have anything to do with Ugandans who are struggling for democracy and a better life? They are on the streets for themselves and their children, not me or my parents or anyone else. You people are so weird.
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At least 3 people have been taken into custody after police violently removed court attendees. Riot police were deployed to Buganda Road Court. I’m currently at the Central Police Station asking to see that the individuals in custody do not remain in prison.
#FreeStellaNyanzi
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The regime will go to any length, even this absurd judicial spectacle, to protect the symbol underwriting its oppression. We can only hope more Ugandans will continue to laugh, offend, & bring M7 back down to earth.
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But these arguments both fail to show why people resonate so intensely with gay panic right now. I believe the current gay panic expresses a structural sense that the future has been foreclosed by the appearance of a foreign force that jeopardize processes of social reproduction.
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As millions of young people experience adulthood as a time of structural unemployment or underemployment, it also becomes harder to imagine how one could ethically access this consumer lifestyle or even more traditional visions of adulthood which center on heterosexual marriage.
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Ugandans live with the immanence of absolute catastrophe: millenarian faiths proclaim the coming apocalypse, and many live in active anticipation of the unimaginable day when the NRM regime will collapse. Gay panic domesticates this apocalypse by giving it a face and a body.
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I still remember that when Netanyahu visited Uganda in 2020, Museveni said he would consider opening an embassy in Jerusalem. I was shocked at how little outrage it caused.
It’s now time for him to close the Ugandan consulate in Tel Aviv and definitively cut ties with Israel.
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Enter the spectral homosexual.
Gays become the thing threatening the future itself. Repressing them allows people to imagine they are putting off the political and economic crises simmering below the surface of everyday life.
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just payed my social media tax....spent 4 days refreshing twitter while my 2 brain cells tried to figure out what was wrong
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@MwesigyeFranks
Telling people to shut up and work instead of mobilizing for their rights and their futures is wrongheaded and malicious. Shame on you for insulting Ugandans’ intelligence and the dignity of their struggle. They know what they’re fighting for & won’t be deterred by bootlickers.
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someone said i look like john lennon and honestly ? where’s the lie
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my mom, the aeronautical engineer,, truly believed elephants and whales were the same size. today i had the great pleasure of telling her a whale heart is bigger than the largest elephant ever recorded.
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As the story goes, young people, enticed by the appearance of inaccessible Western forms of consumption, turn to socially destructive means to make money. This is the main narrative of “homosexual recruitment:” young people being offered money in exchange for gay sex
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Magistrate Kamasanyu was delivering her sentence when an observer threw a pen at her bench. Police immediately grabbed one observer. When others stood up for him, police began violently pulling anyone in an FDC shirt out of the courtroom
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Judge Kamasanyu has adjourned court until sentencing tomorrow at 3PM. Chants of “we shall overcome” & “museveni must go” as gallery leaves the courtroom.
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going to be talking a bit about the 100+ years of zionism’s history with uganda at this teach in organized by
@32degreeseast
!!
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Just come back from central police station. 6 people are in custody.
@AhamyaSandra
and I spent 3 hours seeking bond for them & were denied.
At least one of them has injuries, but they're doing ok & have been provided food.
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We'll be back tomorrow morning to see to it that our comrades are promptly released.
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Magistrate Kasamunyu is citing judgements from colonial GB, India, US & Uganda to establish definition of obscenity. Obscenity is being defined as material that 1. lacks artistic merit, 2. may corrupt individuals and 3. violates “contemporary community standards”
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@qataharraymond
@kizzabesigye1
nrm has made this kind of violence mundane. can one even feign shock? the regime functions by inflicting physical pain and even death. this is necropolitics.
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@NobleQAli
This is important.
But we should also remember the gay panic in Uganda is a product of Western hegemony in more than one way. Neoliberal policies pushed by the West (often at prayer brunches) made life more precarious, leading to anxieties abt the future that attach to queers.
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Thinking about rachel corrie today, the american woman who was run over by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza in 2003
An Israeli judge later ruled that the state wasn’t responsible for her death in a “war-related activity”
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made it in the courtroom at 4pm. trial was meant to start at 2. observers are asking for and explanation of why stella has not appeared yet, after a woman’s voice was heard screaming outside. believed to have been
@drstellanyanzi
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this letter from bataille to leiris is so unreasonably funny to me
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shoutout to the customs & border patrol agent who welcomed me into the US by saying “good luck idi amin”
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it’s wild that i just sat thru a whole lecture on the causes of obesity & food deserts were never mentioned
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“if i have committed a crime, send me to a prison that takes care of women’s needs. can something be done about the blocked toilets & the UTIs at Luzira prison. We have a sick bay with no doctors”
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i just woke up from a dream where french fries grew from people’s heads and honestly i blame the kids in middle school who said my starter locs looked like cheetos
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we’re back at Buganda Road Court, where today Magistrate Kamasanyu will announce the sentence given to
@drstellanyanzi
. yesterday, stella was convicted of one count of offensive communication under the computer misuse act.
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“i would like to embolden young people...our youth must learn to use their voices.”
“the internet must be protected. the public media has been silenced”
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@drstellanyanzi
just took off her top in Buganda Road Court while asking Magistrate Kamasanyu why she was brought to court today against her consent. The gallery irrupted, people standing on chairs. Police are trying to calm observers down. Stella has been taken out of court.
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The Computer Misuse Act does not define obscenity, hence the effort to define it using dictionaries & legal precedent.
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y did freshman year anselm choose to follow bill clinton on this platform
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@cobbo3
@drstellanyanzi
i can only hope to be half as hydrated, good-humored and headstrong as you !!
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@drstellanyanzi
speaks: “after listening to the mitigating factors raised by the prosecution, i could talk about my children, who are minors—i will not. my children celebrate my protest actions”
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the silence after u make an incomprehensible point in class REALLY hit different over zoom
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we need to start talking about how headwraps fall off while you’re sleeping,,,,every night
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everyone staring at me at this restaurant and i can’t tell if it’s bc i look good today or bc i asked them to turn up kiss from a rose
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(These conditions, it should be noted, are a result of a increasingly cannibalistic form of global capitalism to which Museveni and the NRM regime have been faithful servants)
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just woke up from dream about fighting someone in a bodega for not maintaining social distance while cutting me in line
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@Bak3r3
@Winnie_Byanyima
ugandans will do stuff like this and then call me gay ... y’all are so weird
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As of now, we know Waiswa Abdul & Wanyera Simon have been taken into custody. Waiting to find out more.
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patiently waiting for the day when people stop acting like racist state violence is a scandal
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pretty weird that no one stands in the elevator with their backs to the door
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i tried the do anything now prompt for chatgpt and, well, we're surely fucked
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behold!
a white man wearing shorts 8 degree weather
how swiftly doth he crest a wave
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brits love pretending liz’s old age is anything but a sign that the bourgeoisie will soon cheat death
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@Winnie_Byanyima
my mom really holds it down like no other🥰
she will face down the opps even if they have consular authority😪
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The imperial violence of Europe's migrant strategy: the militarized security force being deployed against Senegalese protesters was armed and trained with EU "development funding dedicated to addressing the root causes of migration in Africa"
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@drstellanyanzi
and the magistrate have arrived.
S: “Down with courts that do not work for me. Why are you muting my volume? Fuck you. Why did you bring me to this place without consent?”
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today, we’ll find out if the judge has accepted the prosecution’s request for a custodial sentence or whether stella will be fined. she offered no mitigating factors when asked by the magistrate.
#FreeStellaNyanzi
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“we’re from a landlocked country, the ocean is a mystery to me”.......i know for a fact we saw the first planet earth move together
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sometimes i get pressed at immigration,,,, then i recall that a visa is just a fancy sticker and a passport is just a leather stamp book
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Judge Kasamunyu is responding to Count 2, offensive communication under Computer Misuse Act of 2011, which requires 1. a suggestion or proposal is made 2. the suggestion or proposal is obscene and 3. the suggestion is made on a computer
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“it is the submission of the prosecution that the offense committed by the convict is not one of freedom of expression but one of gross abuse and misuse of freedom of expression...and in this case, respect of the diseased mother of the president and the fountain of honor himself”
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“let my children be motherless if it means i can speak truth to power”
cheers from the gallery
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Judge Kamasanyu: “there was overwhelming evidence to show the accused is the owner of the facebook page Stella Nyanzi” where obscene poem was posted.
Evidence related to the prosecutor’s third witness & a statement made by
@drstellanyanzi
claiming authorship.
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I had to switch seats TWICE in the plane so couples could sit together. Like why do relationships even exist?
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@africasacountry
@BigMeanInternet
wrote about the Banana Question, socialist agriculture & castration anxiety for
@africasacountry
!! words i never thought i’d say but thank you
@BigMeanInternet
for making that sentence possible, truly a dream come true
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"Any time a white man asked you about yourself, he was about to fuck you over."
i love
@colsonwhitehead
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“Freedom of speech is not absolute. This right does not confer on the citizens the right to speak irresponsibly.”
Prosecution uses UN ICCPR to say freedom of speech is limited by “the need to respect the rights & reputations of others” and to respect public security and morals
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@bwesigye
@RosebellK
the state will always return to the supposed guilt of the “hooligans,” the violent youth, etc. whenever it authorizes police violence. we can’t just accept its logic & appeal to innocence. the only solution is abolition.
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K: “The post lacks value and does not communicate any message. The post would offend any other reasonable person. The suggestions in the post could only made by an immoral person or someone who was poorly brought up.”
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“This offense of cyber harassment is becoming very rampant as people settle scores using demeaning & repulsive apertures. This court needs to send a serious signal to deter the offenders who are increasingly abusing the use of internet & protect this young generation.”
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can someone at the bar 200 feet from my window please request mo bamba. thanks.
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@bwesigye
@africasacountry
i’m so glad the piece resonated !! also from now on if someone asks my political orientation, i will absolutely be describing myself as a matooke socialist
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@drstellanyanzi
@africaarguments
it is an honor to bear witness to your commitment and struggle. a luta continua.
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I hate when the meat sinks to the bottom of my beef juice (kombucha)
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australian drill rappers are the only australians who sound even mildly normal
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this last sentence !!!!
Btw, note that for lower-income countries it's a very different calculus!
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why is the marx-engels reader the most expensive book i’ve bought all semester
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“my children deserve much better for women of uganda. i refuse to be silent in the face of oppression. i will sacrifice motherhood to whatever alter i have to sacrifice motherhood to, if i can speak to a dictator in any language, even the language of vaginas”
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basically they need to open up these streets soon so i can release my subconscious 👁
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@KakwenzaRukira
Wow. The fact that a whole Minister of Education can spew this ahistorical garbage… We’re absolutely never getting free.
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