Grounded in the feminist understanding of research and documentation, we counter the hegemonic patriarchal and colonial foundations of the concept of knowledge and the practices of knowledge production. We conduct our own research and documentation from that standpoint by developing a community-led approach that equips young lesbian, queer women, trans* and gender non-confirming individuals to source and analyze their own stories and develop their own new languages to articulate data on the situation and lived realities of LGBTQ populations in West Africa and Cameroon.
Knowledge production is a strategic vehicle for achieving our mission in that it can be a vital tool of influence because it communicates, educates, informs, creates and builds community. It is also an activity in and of itself. In some cases, our research and documentation may serve a specific advocacy objective directly, but in other cases it can contribute to building influence indirectly.