Both here and there. Diasporic narratives of people who have the ability to exist in two places at the same time. Content warning: Discussion of police violence, religious violence (The Archive: Queer Nigerians) Accessibility: Closed captions available

Una, an isolated Jamaican woman living in 1985 suburban London, works as a nurse on a maternity ward. As she takes a moment of solace to make her traditional condensed milk pudding, burnt milk, she is flooded with visions that take her home.

Burnt Milk

“When will you come home?” Timinepre’s mother asks. Little does she know that Timinepre fled Nigeria to seek asylum in the U.K. They cannot return home for another five years. To explain the series of events that led them here would mean coming out to their mother as a lesbian and admitting that they left the country for fear of persecution. With Nigerian queer history erased from the national narrative of Nigeria, queer Nigerians in the U.K. gather to tell their stories, documenting their experiences so they can never be erased again.

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