Love Offers No Safety

Jude Dibia is an author, queer rights advocate, winner of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize, and shortlisted for the Nigeria Literature Prize, Common Wealth Prize and the Swedish Natur och Kulture Pris. His debut novel ‘Walking with Shadows’ is the first full length novel devoted to queer issues in Nigeria. Dibia currently lives in Sweden where he works with displaced artists as the administrator of the Malmö City refuge artists’ program (Malmö Fristads Program). He is also working on his next novel.

• TableOf Contents Introduction   ThePast Was More Accepting Than The Future       IWas Never Alone With My Mother’s LoveMySexuality Is Part Of Me, But It Does Not Define Me      DoNot Rely Too Much On Labels, For Too Often They Are Fables            NavigatingLoneliness            TheMany Faces Of Love Offers No Safety  ADivine Life In Darkness, A Liberated Life In Light          BetweenA Rock And A Hard Place   AsLong As I Love Myself, I Will Be Fine    WhenI Am No Longer Afraid, I Will Stop Being Perfect    MyFuture Is Not With A Woman      MySexuality Does Not Affects My Faith      EveryMan Is Born Gay          WaitingOn The Sideline For The Life I Desire         DespitePitfalls, I Have Triumphed In My SexualityIAm Queer. This Is Who I Am          MyActivism Is To Protect Vulnerable People           SwingingBoth Ways With A Solid MarriageIWill Continue To Survive Within This EnvironmentItIs Not What I Do, It Is Who I Am  SteppingstonesTo HappinessIWas Forced To Come Out   IfYour Son Asks For Bread, Will You Give Him A Stone?TheTide Will Determine How Well The Pendulum Will Swing