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The Outsiders
by The Outsiders Stories
Spotlighting minority stories from Nigeria.
Episodes
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Christopher James
In this final episode of The Outsiders (Season II), CJ reflects on masculinity, softness, and the freedom to define manhood on his own terms. An intriguing conversation in the Bodies Bodies Bodies ensemble, he speaks unapologetically about being a feminine man who identifies with he/him pronouns,...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Bamise
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Bamise reflects on embracing a life that refuses convention. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they describe shapeshifting through style and self-presentation as an expression of a philosophy rooted in freedom rather than consistency. Acknowledging…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Shemaiah
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Shemaiah reflects on the body as something fluid, shaped by memory, context, and the gaze of others. They describe moving between softness and armour, learning when the body can be home and when it must protect itself. Their androgynous appearance...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Afreaudeity
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Afreaudeity reflects on beauty as a practice of simply existing, free from the expectations of gender, desirability, or convention. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they explore what it means to accept the body as wholly one's own, rather than…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Teno
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Teno reflects on the liberating relationship they have built with their body through movement and strength. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they speak about embracing the gym as a source of emotional resilience while resisting the pressures placed on...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Boyega Taiwo
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Boyega Taiwo reflects on growing up as the slimmest child in a culture where size is equated with health and masculinity with strength. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, he examines the pressures placed on queer men to embody gym-built ideals and the...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Bola Yahaya
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Bola Yahaya reflects on growing up as an effeminate child while navigating queerness within a Muslim home, where public and private scrutiny shaped an early struggle with body dysmorphia. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they explore how fashion…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Fiyin
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Fiyin reflects on growing into a body that was sexualised long before she understood it herself. This is another important entry in Bodies Bodies Bodies. Developing early meant carrying self-consciousness alongside adolescence, revealing how culture...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – D’Kofoshi
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Adetutu (D’Kofoshi) reflects on inhabiting queerness with confidence in Mushin, a Lagos suburb where queer lives are often presumed invisible. A curator, bead artist, and model, she shares how family acceptance, spiritual grounding through Ifá, and…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Demi & Phina
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Demi and Phina reflect on love as a practice of mutual protection, care, becoming, and change. They speak candidly about navigating Demi's transition as a transmasculine non-binary person in a society eager to question and mislabel them, while finding...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Yosola
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Yosola reflects on the shifting relationship between body, identity, and perception. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they explore the tension between how the body is seen by others and how one chooses to inhabit it, embracing the liminal spaces where...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Lilith
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Lilith traces their journey into drag as an act of discovery, self-expression, and liberation. What began as finding language for something previously unnamed to them evolved into a creative practice shared with the queer community, where performance...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Tolu
In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), we meet Tolu, a plus-sized queer. In another entry from the Bodies Bodies Bodies project, Tolu shares a beautiful poem of his that encapsulates his relationship with his body—the humble, obedient servant that deserves love. Tolu calls his body a god…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Dolapo
Dolapo emphasises her relationship with her body’s language and translating that language through dance in this episode of The Outsiders (Season II). As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, Dolapo’s reflections are instructive, showing what it means to be in tune with your body – listening, not...
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Bodies Bodies Bodies – Temiloluwa Johnson
On this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Temiloluwa Johnson takes centre stage in Bodies Bodies Bodies to reflect on the body as a site of memory, identity, resistance, and becoming. Through personal stories and intimate reflections, she explores what it means to live fully in a world that...
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Trailer – Season II
The Outsiders (Season II), titled Bodies Bodies Bodies, is the latest iteration of Temiloluwa Johnson's ambitious experimental photography project, combining photography with an accompanying narrative podcast that follows the lives of 15 queer Nigerians across different cities, communities, and...
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Remembering Fola Francis: A Personal Look at Nigeria's Trans Icon
In this SPECIAL episode of The Outsiders, we honour the life and legacy of Fola Francis, a Nigerian transgender trailblazer who tragically passed away in December 2023. She was featured in our series exploring how LGBTQ+ Nigerians access healthcare, where she shared the peculiar challenges trans...
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Bonus Episode: Navigating Healthcare and the Future of Medical Practice in Nigeria
In this bonus talk episode, Chinazom Ngini (assistant producer) and Mariam Adetona (medical fact checker) from this season join the conversation on healthcare access for LGBTQ+ Nigerians. The discussion delves into the challenges of navigating healthcare in Nigeria and the future of medical...
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The Burden of Processing Sexuality in Nigeria
This episode of The Outsiders delves into Nigeria's healthcare policies and their inclusivity for LGBTQ+ people. Despite the implementation of the National Health Act in 2014, aimed at enhancing healthcare accessibility for all Nigerians, certain barriers persist, particularly affecting...
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Breaking Down Barriers to Sexual Health Care in Nigeria
This episode of The Outsiders shines a spotlight on Fisayo, a project officer for an NGO in Lagos, Nigeria. Fisayo's impactful work improving healthcare access and availability for the LGBTQ+ community takes centre stage. We delve into Fisayo's personal journey, from starting as a volunteer to...
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Homophobia and Health: The Reality for LGBTQ+ Nigerians
This episode of The Outsiders explores the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community in northern Nigeria, a region with a long history of discrimination and violence against queer individuals. Sadiq recounts a personal incident involving a private clinic's failure to attend to a friend by treating...
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Introducing THE OUTSIDERS: Trailer
A fresh narrative podcast series with production support from Alibi Investigations. Hosted by Todah Opeyemi. Subscribe to The Outsiders Stories: https://substack.com/@theoutsidersstories
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