We believe it is everyone’s right to live with dignity, to exist without fear, to choose whomever they please to love, and to speak powerfully and create meaningfully. Africans everywhere should have their rights protected, no matter who they are. The recent criminalization of gays in Africa is making it dangerous and impossible for many simply to exist. Africa’s Out! is our sincere effort to counter this with joy, support, and celebration!
June Celebration
Wangechi Mutu Founder, Africa’s Out!
ARTISTS
Super special thanks to every single artist
Thank you for offering such an important piece of yourselves to help UHAI EASHRI and bring this Africa’s Out! vision to life.
- Nina Chanel Abney
- Derrick Adams
- David Antonio Cruz
- Edgar Arceneaux
- Firelei Baez
- Rina Banerjee
- Hank Willis Thomas
- Mickalene Thomas
- Nari Ward
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Kehinde Wiley
- Saya Woolfalk
- Xaviera Simmons
- Lorna Simpson
- Alexandria Smith
- Shinique Smith
- Aisha Tandiwe Bell
- Sanford Biggers
- Nayland Blake
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
- Phoebe Boswell
- Zoë Buckman
- Caitlin Cherry
- Brandon Coley Cox
- Renee Cox
- Kambui Olujimi
- Valerie Piraino
- Cindy Sherman
- Laurie Simmons
- Wangechi Mutu
- Shirin Neshat
- Rashaad Newsome
- Tameka Norris
- Toyin Odutola
- Leonardo Drew
- Nicole Eisenman
- LaToya Ruby Frazier
- Charles Gaines
- Kira Lynn Harris
- Heather Hart
- Richard Hawkins
- Duron Jackson
- Rashid Johnson
- Titus Kaphar
- Yashua Klos
- Jeremy Kost
- Simone Leigh
- Julie Mehretu
- Sam Messer
- Marilyn Minter
- Zanele Muholi
Thanks to our Sponsors and Host Committee
Our sincere and massive gratitude goes to each and every one of our incredible sponsors and host committee members. Without your generous support and belief in this movement, none of this would have been possible. Thank you.
- Ben Bronfman
- Scott Campbell
- Thelma Golden and Duro Olowu
- Andrea Kerzner
- Barbara Shuster
- Dominique Lévy
- Stanley Lumax
- Nancy Portnoy
- Bettina Prentice
- Kimora Lee Simmons
- Christy Turlington
- Toshi Reagon
- Enoch Oceana Riese
- Tracey and Philip Riese
- Jack Shainman Gallery
- Darren Walker
About UHAI EASHRI
UHAI EASHRI is an indigenous activist fund that provides flexible and accessible resources to support civil society activism around issues of sexuality, health and human rights in the East African region, with a particular focus on the rights of sexual minorities. UHAI provides grants and capacity support to sex worker and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organizations in the five East African countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
WHAT YOUR DONATION WILL HELP SUPPORT
Your donation will ensure that UHAI EASHRI is able to sustain its work over time and continue to be the organization that funds:
STRATEGIC LITIGATION
In July 2014, UHAI EASHRI funded the constitutional challenge to the infamous Uganda Anti-Homosexu- ality Act. The case was won and the law declared unconstitutional!
“We thank UHAI for providing the funds for this project. The nullifica- tion of the AHA is a giant leap for the LGBTI community in Uganda and their allies who were living under the yoke of this draconian law. Having a well constituted, well-organised and strategic legal team was all a result of this project, and the funds are the reason that we do not have the Anti Homosexuality Act 2014 as law on Uganda’s books anymore.”
— Adrian Jjuuko, Uganda Civil
Society Coalition for Constitutional La Institutional and core support
‘’If it wasn’t for UHAI extending support, the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya would not have survived. UHAI has contributed invaluably towards GALCK’s continued rise from the ashes. Thank you does not adequately cover the level of gratitude.”
– Lorna Dias, The GALCK Taskforce
BUILDING COMMUNITY AND BUILDING MOVEMENTS
“I can’t help myself to thank you and the UHAI-EASHRI Team on behalf of Support for Trans and Intersex Rights. Last week we met with our parents thanks to a project that UHAI is sponsoring and it was an amazing experience. The best we have ever met in Rwan- dan activism. Lots of confessions, testimonies, lessons, joy, tears and celebration. Parents met each other and understood a lot about LGBTI rights which was our goal. They stopped seeing us as useless kids and were actually surprised to see how organised and committed we were. One of the parents said and I quote: ‘my daughter was being pressured to marry but now I will help her convince her dad that she was born otherwise.’”
— Leader of Rwandan LGBTI organisation Support For Trans and Intersex Rights
SUPPORT FOR TRANS AND INTERSEX RIGHTS
“UHAI has been and continues to be more than just a fund. It’s a team of partners who reach out to ensure that we have the support we need. They are a team with whom we can discuss more than just a need for money.”
— Julius Kaggwa, SIPD, Ugandan organisation for the rights of intersex people
“And finally, we wish to acknowl- edge our main donor UHAI EASHRI for all of your support, financial and otherwise. Thank you for taking a chance on us.”
— Jisiangu,Kenya Trans and Intersex community group in their first publication Resilience: A resource guide for intersex, transgender and gender non-conforming Kenyans
how to donate
Donate before Friday June 5, 2015
All donations and checks should be made payable to Africa Schoolhouse and include UHAI EASHRI in the memo area. Africa Schoolhouse is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has graciously agreed to host the 2015 AFRICA’S OUT! Celebration as fiscal sponsor for UHAI EASHRI. All funds will go directly to UHAI EASHRI through Africa Schoolhouse. Your donation is fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
PLEASE MAIL CHECKS TO:
Africa Schoolhouse
1158 26th Street #427
Santa Monica, CA 90403
OR VISIT:
africaschoolhouse.org
Donate after Tuesday June 9, 2015
Please make your check payable to Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and include UHAI EASHRI in the memo area. The Astraea Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
PLEASE MAIL CHECKS TO:
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
116 East 16th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
OR VISIT:
uhai-eashri.org
with love from
Wangechi Muti
Founder, Artist
Alexandra Giniger
Project Manager, Activist
Hiroko Ishikawa
Design Assistant, Advocate
Yarminiah Rosa
Project Assistant, Ally