Botswana

Breaking the Silence – Botswana
Bradley Fortuin

Bradley Fortuin is the Community Movement Strengthening Manager at LEGABIBO. He is the co-founder of the annual LGBTIQ Batho Ba Lorato film festival. He is currently working to strengthen the LGBTIQ movement in Botswana, though capacity and skills development processes sexual and gender minorities in Botswana. Bradley is also the founder and curator of the online photographic exhibition Life | Loss | Love which portrays the narratives of LGBTIQ persons in Botswana.

Resilience

Bradley Fortuin hosts this episode joined by Maitumelo Tsekane a mental health and social support counsellor at Lesbians and Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO). They talk about the importance of building a sense of self, how to build resilience and the need to build our mental muscle. They both stress the need to be kind to each other, and ourselves.