A peek Under the rainbow
A Peek Under the Rainbow is a solo monologue podcast hosted by Cush, exploring the lives and realities of queer Nigerians, told through a perspective of personal reflection, intelligence, and emotional precision — aimed at helping Nigerians understand the lives, realities, and humanity of queer people in Nigeria. The show does not ask the listener to agree. It asks them to understand. The tone is that of a trusted friend speaking honestly across the table. Not an activist lecture. Not a courtroom argument. A conversation. One that starts where the listener already is, and walks them slowly, episode by episode, into a...
Heteronomativity -- Who's the Man?
SHOW NOTES
This episode takes on one of the most layered ideas in the series — that the heteronormative framework does not only shape straight people. It shapes everyone, including the queer people who are supposedly outside it.
Cush builds the argument carefully, starting with the most familiar entry point — the "who's the man" question — and moving through the inherited frameworks that queer people carry into their own relationships, the roles and labels that attempt to recreate heterosexual structure inside queer spaces, and the specific prejudice that emerges when masculinity is treated as more desirable, more credib...
The secret is you
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DESCRIPTION
Every family has secrets. Affairs. Debts. Illnesses nobody names out loud. Things that happened, mistakes that were made, moments that became shame. But most secrets are attached to an event. Something you did. Something that can, eventually, be left behind.
Being queer in a Nigerian family is different. The secret is not something you did. The secret is you. And you cannot leave yourself behind.
In this episode, Cush explores what it means to love a...
The bullying of Effeminate men
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Every Nigerian school had one. The boy who walked wrong, talked wrong, sat wrong. The one who cried too easily, spoke too softly, avoided the rough games. You know exactly who this is. You probably remember his name.
In the first episode of A Peek Under the Rainbow, Cush examines the specific, sustained cruelty directed at effeminate boys and men in Nigeria — where it comes from, who participates in it, and what it quietly produces in everyone involved. Not just in th...
