Today is International Women’s Day #IWD2019: We celebrate and stand in solidarity with all women, noting their tenacity and fortitude, especially those who courageously survive violence and defy patriarchy. At African HRC, with global lesbians and transgender women our family, we continue to fight for the basic human right to autonomy of mind and body. By 2010 I has been living as an expat South African in the United States for over 20 years, still harboring a deep love and attachment for the land of my birth. I had started an advocacy blog, helmed by the fact that I was an out lesbian.