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This is indeed a survival of the fittest as the youth say haha. Where did this disease (the coronavirus) come from even?' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1590242648566-JWHT35T0T7N6E0IY5RYT/6H0A2316.jpg Sleep Where You Work Nyakaisiki (48), Market vendor who also sleeps at the market https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1590242726674-ZZVBGK1OE2L3KJYAJOMV/6H0A2430.jpg Sleep Where You Work It's been a month or so since I have left this place. I have stopped counting ... I fold myself up like this every night so I can catch some sleep'. Lillian (48). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1590242737585-3QE3PFQER4U42VBE01HI/6H0A2451.jpg Sleep Where You Work Babirye (53) uses her stall to sleep at night. 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Through the Cracks (2021) “I think at this point I have internalized violence to be apart of my love life. I have not been with anyone who has not abused me. It sucks but I can't fight back because I know I can’t win. It has gotten worse in the pandemic but there is no one to talk to. I have heard about therapy but its really expensive. I have accepted my fate”. LARYN* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854205953-IFXJB70K2KLF8B0W9V10/DeLovieKwagala_05.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “My story is a painful one to talk about as it takes me back to a dark place and I’m honestly not ready. I was blinded by love that I lost a lot of friends, went into a state of depression from all the self body hate that he inflicted on me from comments like I’m too fat or I’m not beautiful enough. My only hope is if we had support and a way to hold them accountable because in the end, we are human too. No one deserves to be treated as less. If the government could let us be, these men won’t feel as much powerful as they feel now. MALAIKA* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854141300-DLIQ0GPU50QN1Y1KY9GI/DeLovieKwagala_07.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “When you lead a life like mine, you have to choose your own battles correctly because you know deep down you have no support. Many of us went and stayed with men we didn’t know much during the pandemic because it was survival over anything. I was raped daily and forced to do ugly things and I couldn’t even talk to anyone because at the end of the day, I was fed”. ALICE* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854155848-5YW6UQFBY08U8EP3HTDJ/DeLovieKwagala_08.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “Being the feminine one, I have to submit to my man. whatever he wants, he is the man. I can’t deny him his rights. At the end of the day, he still loves me and that’s what matters”. RENAH* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625853713123-BX43E0YGYVZE04SF7I4O/DeLovieKwagala_01.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “My dad kicked me out once he found out that I was Trans. I ended up at a shelter which I then left I for various reasons. I moved in with my then boyfriend. Things were going well until he started to abuse me constantly. On the last straw, he assumed I was cheating on him and attacked me with a knife and sliced my face. Sad thing is, I couldn’t report him to the police because of the limitations that us as transgenders face in this country”. MISSY* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854117009-IU3NVEZCIQU6771ZL6FP/DeLovieKwagala_10.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “This is a very hard position to be in. First, we don't really have support centers to help us process and get support for being victims of intimate partner violence in our community. Some of us who have tried to share, we have been alienated and stigmatized but this is a real problem that we can’t choose to keep ignoring. We need platforms like this to speak up” MAYA* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625853145047-KRT99FI55VAKO76CGP2F/DeLovieKwagala_04.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “You know because gender based violence is often associated with heterosexuality, I didn’t know I was being abused until the damage had been done. For the longest time, he said this was another kind of love that he was teaching me. I believed him and ended expecting it all the time. In the pandemic, forceful sex became apart of it whenever he pleased. I got this scar while resisting his other friend he had brought along to hit me”. PEARL* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854066103-WA13JGLHI0OVZ1KQA00O/DeLovieKwagala_06.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “I love my boyfriend. So much. But because he also knows I love him, he treats me so badly. Sometimes he comes back from work and beats me up really bad for no reason. I take it because I don’t have a choice. I don't have anywhere to go because even when I meet my brother on the side of the road, he acts like he doesn't know me because ‘I’m a gay disgrace’ in his words. So I stay. Just like I stayed in my previous relationship till I lost a finger. It is what it is”. CELINE* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625853741025-X36FIY7JCVPCUMIZDQBY/DeLovieKwagala_02.jpg Portfolio - Through the Cracks (2021) “The person who I’m dating thinks he is doing me a favour. And maybe he is right. Being single is tough and as a trans person, no one really cares about us. He will remind me how he feeds and houses me daily. I don't have a voice around him. But he is also very big and muscular so I have learnt to just do what he wants so I don’t get beat up”. CYRUS* Names have been changed because of the stigma and shame around the topic. https://deloviekwagala.org/portfolio/iamnotmytrauma monthly 0.5 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854610578-6AMJTV87E81NMO0YQQ87/DeLovieKwagala_16.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854727116-PXNBGSAY4AMV5A3TLX98/DeLovieKwagala_20.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry Mercy* 17 brought me these flowers as we were winding up the day's shoot with the biggest smile. It truly made me hopeful for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854652402-EFQX09CGWZ6V19T8T846/DeLovieKwagala_19.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “This situation at times makes me really sad and I feel like I’m not loved and that no one besides me cares about me and I can’t stop myself from crying. I sometimes feel like it's ridiculous to tell people about my messed up life story because I don’t think anyone would really listen to me or even believe me but then I’m glad at times that I have people that went through this with me and understand me deeply. It’s a bit comforting and really sad that back at Bery’s, no one confided in the other as we all thought we were the only one this was happening to and we were too embarrassed to confide in the others. Everyone suffered alone.” Eliona* now 18, says that Bery visited her village and got them registered for sponsors. He came back after a week and told her that she had gotten a white sponsor and that the best way to be in touch with her sponsor was to stay at his place since her grandmother didn't have a smartphone. The abuse started shortly after she left home. She was 10 back then but she couldn't go back home because her Grandmother was finally happy that she could be in school after all the struggles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854640041-TM1PY6WWYR48DCVVMLQS/DeLovieKwagala_18.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “I can’t find the right words to describe or package what I went through. I felt deeply betrayed and abandoned. I felt like I was left on the ground and my legs couldn’t support me to stand again or someone to make my heart warm again. It has been so cold ever since…like somehow, I’m missing the skin that’s meant to cover it”. Flower* now 20 was at Bery’s for 10 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854621712-3BSOVQGXSC6G85R5S2SC/DeLovieKwagala_17.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “I have struggled so much with identifying what I feel, how I feel and why I feel these feelings and overwhelming emotions. Does blaming one for the horrible things they did to you ever reduce the pain? Does it ever heal the wounds? Does it give you any answers as to why they did what they did and particularly why they chose you? These questions drive me crazy every single day and i don't even know if I will ever get the answers to them because even the adults don't seem to have it figured out!” Cathy* 17 was one of the very first children brought to Bery’s Place when it was just starting up. She was there for 11 years and she struggles to remember details of her life before that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854610578-6AMJTV87E81NMO0YQQ87/DeLovieKwagala_16.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “The lake reminds me of love. It mothered me whenever I was sad and didn’t have anyone to turn too. The water was always there to listen to my cries and together with the wind, they carried my deepest secrets.” Eliona* 18 sits by the port where boats, the only regular means of transport to her home on Kalangala Island, can be found loading and unloading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854585610-3OR6EILHPO59G7BUH0VQ/DeLovieKwagala_15.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “My mother still hates me to this day because I chose to seek justice for what happened to us. She doesn’t understand how I can turn my back on a man who took me in and cared for me when my own father abandoned us, a man that fed me and paid my school fees. It’s as if I unknowingly entered in this silent agreement to use my body in exchange for paying my way through life. It reminds me that no one cares about what I went through, even my own mum. It’s as if I somehow deserved it”. Mercy* 17. Her mother still refuses to talk to her no matter how many times she has tried to reach out. She hopes that one day her mum will come around and at least acknowledge how this whole experience has impacted her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854574969-KIZC6SDFD1A19ZZL7WHD/DeLovieKwagala_14.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “He made me a leader in the house and my main job was to make sure that we follow the schedule of who gets to spend the night in his bed, make sure that he gets his cancer medication in time and daily massages. I was 16 then. It was very uncomfortable and if we didn’t do what he wanted, he starved us. To this day, I still feel dirty like the kind of dirty that can’t be washed away no matter how many times I bathe. Lillian* 22 recently graduated from university and helped run the shelter where the girls stayed hoping and fighting for justice that unfortunately never came. At the same time being at the centre means enduring threats and nightmares from the ‘Justice for Bery’ supporters who accuse her and others first of ‘throwing a sick innocent man in jail’ and later for ‘killing him’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854558051-L9Y4K0ZX2B6EJMTVWTFH/DeLovieKwagala_13.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “I feel like a grown up wearing this dress. He might have taken advantage of my situation and took my innocence, but I still like to find small things that keep me happy. This dress brings me a lot of joy and it's a gift” Beth* 14 was has lived at Bery’s from when she was 4 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854542622-88EG1DMKGY04HIZPEFEZ/DeLovieKwagala_12.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “I was among those who opened the first case in 2013. It was two of us who went to the same school. We talked to a volunteer at the house who took us from school and helped us open up the case. When they arrested Bery, he threatened all the other girls to turn against us and say we were lying and proceeded to bribe his way out until the case was dismissed with no further investigation. We became the outcasts, and everyone hated us. We never went back and fortunately, we had sponsors, so we are still able to study.” Eve* Now 19 was brought to Bery’s by an agent, who roamed the villages looking for ‘girls to be helped by a white rich man’. She was living at her aunt's place after her parents died and was 8 years old when started living with Bery Image 22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da39b13031e3f42fb44b6d9/1625854522356-0XYJWL7VHVVMY6NENP05/DeLovieKwagala_11.jpg Portfolio - I am not my Trauma (2020) - Surviving Berry “Do you ever feel like you’re suffocating under layers and layers of debris and your body feels numbed by the minute, feeling every inch of you being overpowered and your whole system slowly shutting down in a never-ending loop with sharp daggers constantly poking at your soul? That’s how I have felt every day for the last 12 years of my life. I have a lot of hatred for that man and those that share his skin. I was 7 when I was taken to his house. The world will never know how many times I tried to end my life…to end it all so I don’t have to ever remember what he did to me. Education cost me my innocence and my life altogether. Because if it wasn’t about schooling, then I won’t have ended up at that house”. Farida* 19 fails to contain her tears each time she narrates her story to me amidst reminding herself that she needs to do this in hopes of saving other girls by reminding them to speak up.