In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Teno reflects on the liberating relationship they have built with their body through movement and strength. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they speak about embracing the gym as a source of emotional resilience while resisting the pressures placed on bodies that fall outside conventional ideas of womanhood. Family, strangers, and society alike have questioned their muscularity, gender, and sexuality, yet physical exercise has become a pathway to deeper self-love. Identifying as agender and asexual, they also highlight the scarcity of narratives that reflect their experience, offering a powerful reminder that gender, embodiment, and desire need not conform to familiar scripts.

Hosted by Tomide Odu

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Boyega Taiwo reflects on growing up as the slimmest child in a culture where size is equated with health and masculinity with strength. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, he examines the pressures placed on queer men to embody gym-built ideals and the assumptions assigned to bodies within friendships, intimacy, and queer communities. Through self-reflection, Boyega reimagines care as an everyday practice rather than a pursuit of perfection, embracing nutrition, rest, dancing, and learning to inhabit his body with kindness. His story offers a thoughtful meditation on moving beyond constant scrutiny towards a more compassionate relationship with the self.

Hosted by Tomide Odu

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Bola Yahaya reflects on growing up as an effeminate child while navigating queerness within a Muslim home, where public and private scrutiny shaped an early struggle with body dysmorphia. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they explore how fashion became both refuge and language, using fabric, silhouette, and performance to embrace what they describe as an innate “fairy-ness”—a softness and spectacle often suppressed by rigid gender norms. Bola also speaks candidly about living with HIV, arguing that silence and misinformation remain more burdensome than the condition itself. The conversation traces a journey from trauma-informed intimacy to pleasure, affirmation, and creating space for others to feel seen.

Hosted by Tomide Odu

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Fiyin reflects on growing into a body that was sexualised long before she understood it herself. This is another important entry in Bodies Bodies Bodies. Developing early meant carrying self-consciousness alongside adolescence, revealing how culture shapes the ways women learn to see their bodies. Through conversations on body politics, queer feminism, and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), she explores the complexities of a relationship marked by both discomfort and care. As an artist, Fiyin documents women's bodies and health as a way of challenging silence, while advocating strength training as an important practice that expands conversations around women's wellbeing, agency, and embodiment.

Hosted by Tomide Odu

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Adetutu (D’Kofoshi) reflects on inhabiting queerness with confidence in Mushin, a Lagos suburb where queer lives are often presumed invisible. A curator, bead artist, and model, she shares how family acceptance, spiritual grounding through Ifá, and deep confidence in her body have shaped her sense of self. Rather than retreating, her familiarity with her community becomes a quiet form of resistance, creating space for recognition and safety among other queer people. Through personal reflection, Adetutu explores the importance of finding one's tribe and reminds listeners that visibility can itself become an act of care.

Hosted by Tomide Odu

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Demi and Phina reflect on love as a practice of mutual protection, care, becoming, and change. They speak candidly about navigating Demi's transition as a transmasculine non-binary person in a society eager to question and mislabel them, while finding steadiness in each other. Their relationship disrupts heteronormative expectations, showing that masculinity need not mean dominance nor femininity submission, but that care can move freely between partners. Together, they reflect on building intimacy beyond the limits of partial familial acceptance, finding chosen family where blood falls short, embracing the joy that emerges when love and community become places of belonging.

Hosted by Tomide Odu

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Yosola reflects on the shifting relationship between body, identity, and perception. As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, they explore the tension between how the body is seen by others and how one chooses to inhabit it, embracing the liminal spaces where identity remains fluid rather than fixed. Through photography, writing, and dance, Yosola considers creative practice as a way of listening to emotion and memory, recognising how posture and movement carry traces of lived experience. The conversation becomes a meditation on intimacy, softness, and community, revealing the body as both an archive of experience and a site of continual becoming.

Hosted by Temiloluwa Johnson

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), Lilith traces their journey into drag as an act of discovery, self-expression, and liberation. What began as finding language for something previously unnamed to them evolved into a creative practice shared with the queer community, where performance became both joy and autonomy. Reflecting on life between cities, identities, and digital spaces, Lilith examines the challenges of navigating environments that demand different versions of the self. They argue that drag is inherently political, not simply because it resists convention, but because they imagine a future where queer expression belongs everywhere, including spaces that have long excluded it.

Hosted by Temiloluwa Johnson

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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In this episode of The Outsiders (Season II), we meet Tolu, a plus-sized queer. In another entry from the Bodies Bodies Bodies project, Tolu shares a beautiful poem of his that encapsulates his relationship with his body—the humble, obedient servant that deserves love. Tolu calls his body a god and self-care is a veneration. He reflects on how the body influences intimacy, societal perception and interaction. Without pretence, he recognises that self-love is a journey and enjoins the young queer listener to trust & love the body through that journey. 

Hosted by Temiloluwa Johnson

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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Dolapo emphasises her relationship with her body’s language and translating that language through dance in this episode of The Outsiders (Season II). As part of Bodies Bodies Bodies, Dolapo’s reflections are instructive, showing what it means to be in tune with your body – listening, not performing; guarding the body and yet allowing that body to direct the journey, the healing, the decisions, and the experience. She calls the body an intelligent structure that can provide concrete information, if only one is willing to look inward. Through her personal stories and observations, the conversation offers incredible direction on the peculiarities, fluidity and diversity of the individuals that call for more expansive conversations within the queer community on identity, experience and relationships.

Hosted by Temiloluwa Johnson

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is originally an experimental photo documentary by Temiloluwa Johnson, supported by Obodo Nigeria, a youth-led organisation advancing queer rights through creative expression, community building, and cultural production. The project explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, desire, care, and becoming. Expanded into an accompanying audio series by The Outsiders Stories, it brings together intimate conversations with queer Nigerians whose stories illuminate the many ways people inhabit, understand, and reclaim their bodies in contemporary Nigeria.

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