Tinashe Wakapila

Tinashe Wakapila is a Zimbabwean lesbian writer and activist. Her poem and the 2016 film Because I Am, her portraits in Faces and Phases, and her Wakapila Arts Foundation are part of the documented record of Zimbabwean queer life. In her own words (Inkanyiso, 2015): ‘Being a Christian and lesbian has always been a thorn in my life.’