FIRST PERSON | We Exist, We Resist, We Are Not Invisible: Queer, Atheist, and Humanist Refugees in South Sudan

FIRST PERSON | We Exist, We Resist, We Are Not Invisible: Queer, Atheist, and Humanist Refugees in South Sudan

“When home becomes a battlefield, survival itself becomes an act of defiance.” Introduction: Living on the Edge of Existence My name is Abraham Junior. I am a queer leader, a humanist, and an atheist (ex-Muslim) refugee living in the Gorom Refugee Settlement Camp in South Sudan. I belong to a fragile and persecuted community of LGBTQIA+, atheist, and humanist refugees and asylum seekers — many from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republi…