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None on Record, New York, NY

When Selly Thiam saw the front page of the Chicago paper, she realized it was the first time she'd seen a story about an African lesbian. FannyAnn Eddy, founder and director of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association, had been murdered. The news shook Selly deeply. Then a conversation with a friend of FannyAnn's changed her life. "I believe our silence allowed her to be murdered," Notisha Massaquoi told Selly, "She was so out and so public, speaking at the United Nations for the rights of queer Africans, and she was out there by herself." Selly quit her teaching job and launched None on Record (New York, NY). With funding from Astraea, the audio project is continuing FannyAnn's struggle for the safety and freedom of all QLGBT Africans. It is connecting the Continent and the Diaspora, raising a collective voice so that no voice rings out alone. Listen at www.noneonrecord.com

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