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Gay and African at Home Ep2: Making Home Safe for my Sister
Episode 44
Monday, 15 December, 2025
Gay and African at Home is a tender and necessary series that brings queer Africans and their families into intimate conversation. Through gentle storytelling and honest reflection, the series reveals how queerness, language, belonging, and family love unfold inside African homes. In this episode, host Tinatswe Mhaka sits with Dorothy and her younger sister for a warm and layered conversation about identity, faith, and the quiet work of making home a safe place to return to. Dorothy reflects on growing up creative, writing lesbian erotica in her teenage years, and now DJing gospel music while holding the complexity and humour of that journey. She and her sister revisit their childhood, the unspoken expectations around sexuality, and the moment queerness entered their conversations in real and transformative ways. Together, they explore what it means to love someone through uncertainty, how faith communities shaped their earliest understandings of desire, and how sisters learn to listen to each other with softness. This is a story about coming out, yes, but also about growing together. It is about the small, brave gestures that turn family into refuge, and the choices that turn a house into home for a queer person. Follow The Feminist Bar Podcast: Instagram: @thefeministbarpodcast https://www.instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast Twitter/X: @thefeministbar https://twitter.com/thefeministbar Patreon: patreon.com/thefeministbar https://www.patreon.com/thefeministbar
