Skriving som skeiv aktivisme / Writing as queer activism, 18 June | Event in Oslo | AllEvents

Skriving som skeiv aktivisme / Writing as queer activism

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Wed, 18 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm

Wergelandsveien 29, 0167 Oslo, Norway

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Wed, 18 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm (CEST)

Wergelandsveien 29, 0167 Oslo

Wergelandsveien 29, 0167 Oslo, Norge, Oslo, Norway

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Skriving som skeiv aktivisme / Writing as queer activism
Koleka Putuma og Arinze Ifeakandu i samtale med Nosizwe Baqwa om å leve og skrive skeive liv.
// Koleka Putuma and Arinze Ifeakandu in conversation with Nosizwe Baqwa on living and writing queer lives.

Verdenspolitikken beveger seg i stadig mer autoritære retninger, og diskriminering og hatkriminalitet mot skeive øker i hele verden. Hvordan påvirker det den skeive litteraturen som skrives?

Nigerianske Arinze Ifeakandu og sørafrikanske Koleka Putuma er del av en ny generasjon afrikanske forfattere som skriver om skeive erfaringer. De problematiserer utfordringene som kommer med å leve åpent som skeiv: frykten for å miste kontakten med familie og venner, faren for vold, psykiske problemer og skam. Samtidig er livene de beskriver helt vanlige, med vanlige folk på leting etter menneskelig tilhørighet, kjærlighet og fellesskap.

Blir skeiv litteratur automatisk aktivistisk, siden man skriver fra en utsatt gruppe? Og har man et ansvar som skeiv forfatter om å fortelle om skeive erfaringer?

Arinze Ifeakandu er forfatter av novellesamlingen God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, som gir et bredt perspektiv på skeive liv i Nigerias storbyer. Her skildres ensomhet og liv som leves i skjul, men også brennende kjærlighet, begjær og ekstase.

Koleka Putuma er forfatter, dramatiker, og leder for Manyano Media. Med poesisamlingene Collective amnesia, Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In og We have everything we need to start again har hun tematisert homofobi og transfobi, rasismens langtidsvirkninger og hva det vil si å være kvinne.

Nosizwe Baqwa er artist, dramatiker, skuespiller og sanger. Hun jobber selv i krysningsfeltet mellom egen erfaring, kunst og politikk, og i 2022 vant hun Heddaprisen for den selvskrevne produksjonen Mor av en nasjon. Nå møter hun Ifeakandu og Putuma om skeive liv og skeiv skriving.

Samtalen vil foregå på engelsk. Arrangementet inngår i Litteraturhusets pride-program, og er støttet av NORAD.

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The world is drifting towards more authoritarianism, and discrimination and hate crimes towards LGBTQ+ groups is on the rise all over the world. How does this affect the writing of queer literature?

Nigerian Arinze Ifeakandu and South African Koleka Putuma are part of a new generation African authors writing about queer experience. In their work, they highlight the challenges that come with living openly as queer: the fear of losing contact with family and friends, the risk of violence, mental health problems and shame. At the same time, the lives they describe are completely ordinary, lived by ordinary people in search of belonging, love and community.

Does queer literature automatically become activist? And do you have a responsibility as a queer writer to write about queer experiences?

Arinze Ifeakanduis the author of the short story collection God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, which shows a broad perspective on queer lives in Nigerias big cities. It depicts loneliness and lives led in hiding, but also full of burning passion, desire and ecstasy.

Koleka Putuma is an author and playwright and head of Manyano Media. With the poetry collections Collective amnesia, Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In and We have everything we need to start again, she has addressed homophobia and transphobia, the long term effects of racism and what it means to be a woman.

Nosizwe Baqwa is an artist, playwright, actor and singer. Her work often exists at the intersection of her own experiences, art and politics, and in 2022, she won the Hedda Prize for the self-written production Mother of a Nation. Now, she meets Ifeakandu and Putuma for a conversation on queer lives and queer writing.

The conversation will be in English. The event is part of the Norwegian Literature House's pride program and is supported by Norad.


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Wed, 18 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm