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By centering Her-stories in a world that tries to erase them, we reclaim voices, celebrate resilience, and amplify narratives.
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We are Drama Queens
Through intersectionality, we practice community-based organizing on the conviction that everyone is deserving of access to safe spaces within the community, liberty, and self-expression.
Drama Queens is an under-30 youth-led collective of young feminist activists committed to using various forms of performance and audio-visual art to challenge the status quo, break barriers, and center the stories of women (her-stories). Primarily based in Ghana, our work centres Pan Africanist & Decolonial Feminist values that guide our research into the social catalysts of rape culture, consent education, body politics & autonomy, sexual & reproductive rights, environmental activism, and queer liberation in Africa
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Drama Queens' advocacy strategy, since its inception in 2016 has been to use in nuanced ways various forms of performance and visual art to influence the conversations many young people are having about Patriarchy, Rape culture, Sexual repression, Consent, Sexual diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Freedom in Ghana. Our ethos have included Theatre, Speakeasies, Film Productions, Workshops, Music, Poetry, Graphic Novel productions and Social media campaigns
Speakeasy
Drama Queens Speakeasies are recurrent spaces we curate where we engage in conversations. Each Speakeasy involves the curation of resources: literature, audiovisual, and performance art around which the conversations can be grounded in and by feminist and pan-Africanist principles. Our Speakeasies have spanned conversations on reproductive justice, civic action, body autonomy, abortion access and rights, and representation in the media
Theatre
In 2018, we staged Ghana’s first theater production centered on the realities of queer lives in Africa dubbed “Just Like Us”, surviving multiple threats of legal injunctions, to stage a riveting and moving body of political work as a public statement in recognition of the LGBT community in Ghana and across Africa and to represent their very human emotions as an assertion of the humanity they are denied by our societies. We have since successfully staged “Until Someone Wakes Up” (2019), “An African Man” (2020), “Ashikishan” (2021), “Liberating Pleasures” (2022) and “Monsoons” (2022).
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Our media productions
Drama Queens produces a range of multimedia productions centered on our core themes. These include audio dramas, films, live theatre, and other artistic curations.
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