Trifonia Melibea Obono

Trifonia Melibea Obono (born 27 November 1982) is an Equatorial Guinean novelist, political scientist, academic, and LGBT activist. Her novel La Bastarda is the first novel by a female Equatorial Guinean writer to be translated into English. Quotes I belong to a generation of women writers in search of our identity. We’re characterized by a miscegenation of thinking and social exclusion because we question the fundaments of the patriarchy. We’re called “rebels” for every step we take. We women and men who write don’t appropriate the words of “others,” very often we give voice to people because access to means of communication is restricted. We don’t exist without the “others” because writing is a social duty, a work for social change. The PEN Ten with Trifonia Melibea Obono I am a writer, yes, but I define myself primarily as artivista and not as an activist, because I express through art what I think and what I would like the world to be, and what I think it is better for women and sexual minorities. Women have no rights here. They don’t. We do not have rights within the ones inherited from our ethnic traditions. We do not have have rights within the ones inherited from Francoism. We do not have rights anywhere. The issue of women does not interest the political elite. Africademics ‘Life Stories’: Trifonia Melibea Obono And it hurt. My hands, my head, my heart cried out as he placed himself over me. It was my first time with a man. It hurt me a lot. The next day, I walked with pain in my vagina. I got pregnant. I wanted to abort with nitric acid and bleach. They cut my hair with scissors, a pair of scissors they’d grabbed from I don’t know where. ‘Lesbians are men. What are you doing with your hair? Learn to be a man,’ they taunted me, as they cut my hair. They brought me into a dark room. Each beating felt like two. They decided to give me 50 on my rear. ‘I didn’t want to be a mother’ External Links Category:Novelists from Equatorial Guinea Category:LGBT rights activists Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Women authors