Area Scatter

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re talking about the Nigerian performer Area Scatter. Learn about her successful career as a trans performer in 1970s Nigeria, gender diversity in Igbo culture, and how we approach research when academic sources are limited. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. (Image credit: Still from Jeremy Marre's Beats of the Heart: Konkombe (1979))

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer is Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:06.1	I'm Alice.
0:07.0	I'm Irene.
0:07.8	And I'm Eli.
0:08.6	And today we're talking about the Nigerian performer area scatter.
0:18.6	Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Bonarong-Bunurang people of the Kulin'an
0:22.6	nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and pay my respects
0:27.3	to their elders past and present.
0:30.1	They are the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:34.2	We have some content warnings for this episode.
0:36.6	We're going to be talking about the persecution of Ebo people, the Nigerian Civil War,
0:41.3	and the related famine.
0:42.3	We're going to be talking about historic and modern transphobia, and there'll be mentioned
0:47.3	of death in a car crash.
0:49.3	So if any of that is something you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this episode and check out our other content.
0:58.6	For those of you who have been listening to this podcast for more than six months, you'll recognize a regular voice that has returned to us.
1:01.9	Hello, I'm waving, you can't tell.
1:03.8	This is a podcast.
1:06.3	Irene immediately forgets her podcast life.
1:11.1	Irene has been overseas studying Chinese for six months, but she is now returning to
1:15.8	queer as fact.
1:16.5	We're very excited.
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