🎉 Exciting news from Uganda! Our creative workshops are in full swing, and the talented Ugandan LGBT community is writing poems and lyrics that reflect their challenges in a country where being themselves is illegal. 💔✨![]()
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Their poignant words will be transformed into music by our founder director, Swedish artist Petter Wallenberg. 🎶❤️ ![]()
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Stay tuned for more updates on this moving and inspiring project! 🌈🌈![]()
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With funding from Svenska institutet
Exciting updates from our new international project! Rainbow Riots team is in full swing in 3 countries, working to amplify the voices of the Ugandan LGBT community amidst the challenges posed by the new Anti-Gay law, which has intensified feelings of isolation and loneliness. 💔![]()
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As part of our collaboration with London South Bank University , one of London’s biggest universities, young Ugandan LGBT people have written ”letters from Uganda,” sharing their personal experiences and struggles. 💖![]()
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This is gonna be such an amazing collaboration. Stay tuned for more updates! 📝💬![]()
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With funding from Svenska institutet
🌈 Exciting news! Our brand new Rainbow Riots project is officially in full swing, and we’re thrilled to announce that we’re recruiting students from London South Bank University - one of the largest universities in London!![]()
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This unique exchange will connect students with young Ugandan LGBT people, fostering understanding and solidarity to fight the new Anti-Gay law in Uganda. The enthusiasm has been incredible—the university even created Rainbow Riots t-shirts and the students penned a powerful message to Ugandan LGBTQ+ people!![]()
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Stay tuned for more updates! 💪❤️ 🏳️🌈![]()
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With funding from Svenska institutet![]()
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We are so excited to announce our new project!![]()
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In Uganda, a new law, the Anti-Homosexuality Act, criminalises LGBTQ-people with a life sentence or even death penalty. This must stop! ![]()
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In response, Rainbow Riots founder, and a prominent Swedish artist and human rights activist Petter Wallenberg, is launching a groundbreaking project in collaboration with the Ugandan LGBTQ community and one of London's biggest universitLondon South Bank Universityrsity. ![]()
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This project aims to create an exchange between students and marginalized LGBTQ people, finding innovative ways to amplify their silenced voices and share their stories with the world. ![]()
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This will be an opportunity to unite across national borders, to advocate for the repeal of this unjust law. Together, we can make a change!![]()
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With support Svenska institutettutet
Even when they try to silence us we still feel proud of who we are. This is a photo from when our local Ugandan organisation performed at Pride Uganda to our song “Freedom”. In Uganda it’s illegal to be LGBT so Pride has to be an undercover event. But that doesn’t stop us! As the lyrics to “Freedom” go: we’re beautiful, phenomenal, ain’t nobody gonna stop our love! 💖🏳️🌈🌈
