As part of Follow the tree flowers, only the tree flowers   

While the active erasure of queer people from the social spheres they belong to is becoming a norm, spaces of resistance, everyday life, and possible futures are nonetheless succeeding in creating much needed refuges of joy, love, and ecstasy. 

Many African LGBTQI+ people are regularly subjected to discrimination and violence that prevent them from freely existing in the societies they are an integral part of—in recent years, anti-LGBTQI+ laws have been enacted in Uganda, Nigeria, and Senegal, for example. This conversation sheds a light on the stories of resistance that have allowed for life to continue despite oppression. Encompassing personal and collective stories and experiences, Papa De, Ayo Lawson & Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim, as well as Marie Moïse unpack how trespassing has allowed them to stand their ground, enabling the creation of spaces of life, love, and possible futures for queer communities on hostile lands.