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Out-FM Full Show posted on Wed 1/22
Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile
On Tuesday 1/21/2020 at 9pm tune to Out-FM on WBAI/NY 99.5FM for two segments recorded by Naomi Brussel at the OutSummit in December. The United Kingdom’s sodomy laws became enshrined in the laws of it’s colonies, which later freed themselves politically from the UK, but the baggage of the sodomy laws persists in many former colonies and tonight be’ll be talking about Botswana and Kenya, 2 former British colonies. Tonight we’ll focus on Botswana and Kenya. One a success, the other not, but a failure with a silver lining.
Yvonne Oduor is a Kenyan feminist
Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile is a groundbreaking Trans* ARTivist from Botswana. She discusses the court victory there against their sodomy law. Yvonne Oduor is a feminist who uses their background as a trained journalist to advocate for the human rights of gender and sexual minorities in Kenya. She discusses the failure of their court battle on the sodomy law but success of a court orded recognition of intersex people.
John Riley brings us sound from the 2017 ACT UP hidden histories conference.
Carl Strange
From the early days of ACT UP/NY people of color within the group lead efforts to expand access to drug trials, In this segment Carl Strange discusses the Majority Action committee which fought on issues relevant to People of Color and women, both of which were excluded from research in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Jennifer Flynn (on right)
Jennifer Flynn discusses the creation and activities of Vocal-NY which fights for poor people's rights to AIDS treatment access and criminal justice issues.