‘Changing Faces Changing Spaces’ 2017 Conference Report

Changing Faces Changing Spaces (CFCS) is a biennial pan African activist-led and planned conference facilitated by UHAI.

It is a platform for African LGBTIQ and sex worker activists to strategize, network, plan and reflect on achievements and challenges pertinent to our movements.

In June last year, UHAI was the proud host of the sixth Changing Faces Changing Spaces (CFCS) conference themed: ‘Creating a Just Resistance: Our Struggles, Our Strides…’.

It was an exciting five days of deliberations and networking all captured through the eyes of a participant in the attached report.

CONTENT TABLE:

_{A TALE FROM A CFCS NOVICE}

_{DAY I WEDNESDAY 14TH JUNE 2017}

_{Opening remarks and introduction}

_{Plenary Session: The Danger of a Single Story}

_{Plenary Session: Conversations on accountability}

_{Plenary Session: Reform or Revolution}

_{Parallel Session: Body Politx}

_{Workshop: Community Driven Documentation}

_{DAY II THURSDAY 15TH JUNE 2017}

_{Plenary: Stick and Stones}

_{Plenary: HAKI – Litigative Keys to Legislative Doors}

_{Parallel Session: The ‘I’ is silenced: Intersex visibility in organising experiences.}

_{Parallel Session: Sex and Pleasure}

_{Donor Speed Dating Sessions}

_{Africa Premier of Bisi Alimi’s play: “Africa’s Future Has No Space for Stupid Black Men”}

_{SIDE EVENT}

_{Highlights from Side Event on West and Central Africa LGBTI Fund Meeting}

_{DAY III}

_{FRIDAY 16TH JUNE 2017}

_{Plenary Session: A better EU–Africa Partnership: Improving Human Rights, Education, Decent work and Democracy}

_{Parallel Session: Body Economics}

_{Plenary Session: Funding in Restrictive Areas}

_{Parallel Session: Solace Project}

_{Workshop: Security}

_{Closing Plenary Session: Continentuity – Continental based membership organising}

_{The challenges}

_{And then the curtain came down…}

_{THEY SAID…}

The report is downloadable in English and French.