All Work And No Play Makes Jane A Lesbian

 

I am angry. This is no way to start a morning.

But how else am I to feel when twelve students “suspected” of “abnormal” activity are expelled from their boarding school? The principal tells us these girls are “suspected” of engaging in “love-ish touching”. She asks, “Do you do that [love-ish touching] on somebody of your own sex?” Her tone is familiar: who in Kenya hasn’t been shamed by a teacher asking a rhetorical question?

Message to all students in same sex boarding schools in Kenya: do not *touch* each other, let alone “love-ishly”.

Enter Dorothy Kweyu. Expert extraordinaire. We’re told she’s a journalist who’s been covering the education sector for years. Kweyu attributes this “problem” of homosexuality to “a build up of sexual energy…that young people need to burn…[through] field activity”. Apparently spending too much time in the classroom is making our kids queer; they need more “extracurricular activity” (read: sports will keep them on the straight and narrow).

Kweyu also lays the burden on “guidance and counseling” departments in the schools. As we all know, queers need guidance and counseling. Once you go queer, you can always go back—through guidance and counseling, and now through extracurricular activities.

Somewhere in the middle of this clusterfuck we’re told “research” indicates that 3.1% of students polled in Kenya attribute homosexuality in boarding schools to “demons or Satan”. Wow.