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Niger just banned being queer and EXPLICITLY included being ace so I guess you legally have to have sex now? Fucking clown world.
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Anonymous 1d

as other people have said, it's probably a way to further tighten control of women. illegal to be asexual = your husband can make a legal claim against you for refusing sex with him (or worse)

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Anonymous 1d

I find it funny how it’s in the name of standing up to western imperialism when it was the western imperialist who enforce homophobic policies like ya f the French may they rest in piss but this isn’t much of a flex

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Anonymous 1d

As a west African, seeing this happen in real time is so demoralising. I worry that my people won’t be free within my lifetime…

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Anonymous 1d

“Let’s combat imperialism and colonialism by doubling down on the same shit used to harm us many years ago!”

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Anonymous 1d

the lgbtqia “activities” banned might include activism and organizing, aces def included in that

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Anonymous 19h

This is the consequences of western imperialism and pinkwashing. If we continue to justify imperialism by calling for the supposed liberation of queer people in other countries by our force, of course other countries are going to see LGBTQ as a tool of American imperialism.

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Anonymous 1d

Whatchu call me 🤨

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Anonymous replying to -> just_a_bucket 1d

I mean it’s not like they were accepting of queerness in the way we think of it in precolonial times- they may have been somewhat more accepting but applying western progressive values to them is in itself somewhat imperialist

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

True

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

God I didn’t think about that that’s so awful

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 19h

Trvth

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 15h

Literally none of the states in Africa besides Egypt, Ethiopia, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and maybe Mali should really exist at all, the concept of the nation state and the idea that all land on earth must be administered by a nation state lest it be “terra nullus” are both distinctly European, and all the states in Africa are the remains of colonies.

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