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NEW: @BulelaniMfaco has always had an acute sense of the periphery. In a week which marks 20 years of #DirectProvision, he traces a search for freedom that has taken him from rural South Africa to the Knockalisheen Accommodation Centre. Read: bit.ly/3c9S9t3.

A new story has arrived on masc. On the eve of the first birthday of his drag alter ego, Viola Gayvis, @donnymz_ speaks about becoming only the second working queen in Ireland during a year of deepening anger and action against racism: bit.ly/3l2eqON.

A profile by @stphnmlny of Bulelani Mfaco, an activist with @masi_asylum, who speaks of racial inequality and anti-gay violence, exploitation of people in Direct Provision and an asylum process discrediting people's claim to their own sexuality. #Pride masc.life/home/2020/4/12…

NEW: "It’s possible to be a normal person – and to also be this other thing.” Recently elected President of @UCDSU and @ActUpDublin volunteer, Conor Anderson recounts his negotiation of sexuality and sobriety, shame and stigma. Read: bit.ly/2Za84Tr.

#ENDDIRECTPROVISION #ENDDP

Last week Ireland's system of #DirectProvision was 20 years old. In case you missed this telling it as it is @BulelaniMfaco What an important role @masi_asylum have played in highlighting the problems with DP and growing power around the need to end it! #EndDP

Poverty in rural South Africa, persecution in Cape Town, and existing in a state of suspension under #DirectProvision in Ireland. Bulelani Mfaco traces the difference which has repeatedly positioned him on an edge and put him in pursuit of a centre. Read: bit.ly/2XGrUGZ.

NEW: @BulelaniMfaco has always had an acute sense of the periphery. In a week which marks 20 years of #DirectProvision, he traces a search for freedom that has taken him from rural South Africa to the Knockalisheen Accommodation Centre. Read: bit.ly/3c9S9t3.

“Day sought counsel from a so-called conversion therapist, diagnosing demonic possession. ‘I remember him standing over me, shaking me. It was very theatrical,’ joking that the spectacle may have spawned the interest in performance he’d go on to pursue.” bit.ly/345lTVo

NEW: “I was brought up on a very American, dancing in the aisles and speaking in tongues evangelical Christianity.” Day Magee describes his negotiation of gender, sexuality, faith and family, and finding healing along the way: bit.ly/345lTVo.

“Knowing his truth and learning his own story has allowed a chink of light through a once impenetrable wall, transforming his relationships and friendships today – not least the one with himself.” John Fleming on the power of letting trauma visit. More: bit.ly/2P813xo.

@tinydavyq Thanks, Davy. X

The always brilliant @mascdotlife telling the stories rarely heard from queer men in such intelligent, unflinching and emotional ways Massive kudos to John for speaking his truth to the world ❤️

“There’s this innate desire in me to find my truth. It’s a compulsion." A new story has arrived on masc. John Fleming describes his ongoing journey towards a place of greater self-love and authenticity. Content warning: trauma and abuse. Click: bit.ly/33QleWX.

Congratulations @mascdotlife @stphnmlny you have been nominated, by the public, to the @GCNmag @nxfie #GALAS2020 LGBT+ Awards for the LGBT+ Digital Change Maker Award!! galas.ie

@Adlers1 💞

“A community is only as healthy as its individual members, and there’s a lot of healing to be done in our community. Every queer person in Ireland has to deal with trauma [as a result of] bullying and marginalisation.” ♥️ Avoca Reaction & @mascdotlife ♥️ masc.life/home/2019/7/28…

“My baseline is love. I’m a love-giver. What I want to do with my art, my performance and my life is to cultivate more of a culture of positivity and healing and love, rather than tearing each other down to get a level up. Otherwise, you gain nothing.”

@clondalkhun Thanks for sharing.❣️

NEW: Wren Dennehy is an inter gender drag entity otherwise known as Avoca Reaction, queer performer and a creative producer. Here, they speak with masc about coming out, compassion, healing as a queer community and more. Click: bit.ly/2YvYWKD.

NEW: Ruairí Ó Donnabháin is a choreographer, curator, producer and artist from Cork. As Gaeilge and in English, he talks exploring Irishness, queerness and the intersection of the two through dance; queering the Irish language and a queer sense of place: bit.ly/2xFrH8y.