A Fist of Tongues Sunni Lamin Barrow

How does your environment influence who you are?  

Sunni Lamin Barrow takes you back to his youth and shares the stories and poems he wrote about that time, influenced by the fear of punishment and exclusion that exist for LGBTQ+ expressions in his motherland.

A Fist of Tongues is a poetic performance in which Sunni explores the different stages of his life since fleeing Gambia. In this performance, in which storytelling merges with visuals, sound design and dance, Sunni testifies about what it is like to live as an African queer person, and about the decisive influence that parents can have on how you develop.

“This skin limits me"

The smiles on my face are wounds of things I cannot yet speak about

And I do not want to be remembered for my tears, the beauty of this poem

Is of the ugly I have lived, I am the origin of the others that came before me.”