Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
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10 years working on mental health interventions in Zimbabwe.
And queer people were really, really struggling at a certain point.
Trans people were dying by suicide.
And they approached me as a member of the queer community in Zimbabwe myself and asked if I could help.
And so I started to write this big NIH grant that was looking at queer people's mental health in Zimbabwe, a multi-million dollar grant, and I was going to be the
PI of this grant.
And my mentors at Harvard kept pushing me in the direction of making this grant focused on an HIV intervention.
And that was because they felt like it was more likely to be funded.
And
The more I spoke to queer people in Zimbabwe, the more I realized that this was the opposite of what they wanted.
They told me we they didn't want anything that was related to HIV or their sexual health.
All they wanted were safe spaces.
They wanted to be able to hang out and feel comfortable.
They wanted to go to bars and to parties and nightclubs and just be themselves the way queer people are able to do in places that have
Have rights.
And
I realized that this project that I was doing to study queer people's mental health was completely off base.
And I ended up deciding not to submit the grant because it felt unethical.
From queer people in Zimbabwe, I learned about the idea of mutual aid, the idea of, you know, helping each other out while also trying to change the world that is oppressing you at the same time.
From charity, you know.
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