Chinelo Anyadiegwu

love

love letters to trans people

community

Love Letters to Trans People: Part 3

If what greets you this holiday is loneliness, understand that you haven’t been left with nothing. You have been left with yourself, and that is a whole lot more than…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Dec 22, 2021

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 306 Recap: I Swear

I’m so excited to recap what is easily, my favourite episode of Pose so far.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Jun 1, 2021

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 305 Recap: Abundance

I’m not sure I recognize the family I fell in love with on Pose anymore.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

May 25, 2021

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 304 Recap: Home Free

I’m wrestling with holding a desire to respect and honor the stories of love, resilience, sacrifice and unfair, unjust, cruel death that is the truth of queer history and simultaneously,…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

May 19, 2021

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 303 Recap: A Tale of Two Mothers

Elektra remembers her fraught relationship with her own mom, and how she became the mom her children needed.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

May 11, 2021

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episodes 301 & 302 Recaps: Coming Home One More Time

Pose has always felt like home; family. So I started this episode in my bedroom, with my roommates who, in true queer tradition, are my family. I thought it was…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

May 4, 2021

international news

joe biden

politics + activism

Here’s Why Biden’s Latest LGBTQI Memorandum Should Be Ringing Alarm Bells

The world outside of America is not just countries of people that need saving and there is no hypothetical past to return to that would make that saviour narrative real.…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Feb 24, 2021

international news

nigeria

politics + activism

Where Do We Go to be Queer, Nigerian and Alive?

Queer and gender non-conforming Nigerians are more vulnerable to threats and extortion by the Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) because they can legally be targeted for their sexuality or gender…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Oct 21, 2020

interview

nigeria

film

Ìfé Writer and Director Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim on Decolonizing Nigerian Storytelling and Queer Love Stories

“Ìfé is a story that not many queer people have seen come out of Nigeria. I’m really hoping that, apart from everything else that it does – normalizing the queer…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Sep 9, 2020

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 210 Recap: Together

The season two finale of Pose is here to make you cry your eyeballs out (in a good way!).

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Aug 22, 2019

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 209 Recap: Girls Trip

Our girls take a much deserved trip out of the city and to the beach!

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Aug 15, 2019

pose

pose recap

tv show recaps

“Pose” Episode 208 Recap: Truth Like A Blazing Fire

“Black people caring for each other or holding any sort of intimate space together is something that I rarely see on TV. With Black queer people and specifically. Black masculinity…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Aug 8, 2019