{"id":2540,"date":"2023-03-30T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/?page_id=2540"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:42:35","slug":"about-francheska","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/about-francheska\/","title":{"rendered":"About francheska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column full_height=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680209143373{background-image: url(http:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FrancheskaNjanja.jpeg?id=2542) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1419024612249{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;background-color: #181818 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom_class&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752284546849{background-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Sensitivity Editor, Performer &amp; Writer,<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"> <a style=\"color: #99ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thegreattitisabird.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Tit is a Bird<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Franceska Njanja<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:15px;\"><\/aside>[vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;show-for-large-up&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">Franceska Njanja (they \/ them pronouns) is a Nairobi-based Kenyan artist, writer, health educator, and activist who believes that art has real potential to effect changes in society. Franceska&#8217;s work has been included in recent significant exhibitions: Amsterdam International AIDS Conference (2018); UHAI EASHRI Changing Faces Conference (2019); UN-Habitat Assembly (2019); Artfluencefest @ KwaZulu-Natal University (2021) and African Podcast Festival (2022). Franceska is a lead vocal performer and sensitivity editor for \u201cThe Great Tit is a Bird,\u201d and they recently joined the project as a writer as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ffffff;\">As a self-trained drag-performing \u201cArtivist,\u201d Franceska is a writer and podcaster in Nairobi\u2019s queer collective underground ballroom community. They are an ardent advocate for their community in Kenya, where consensual same-sex intimacy is criminalized and LGBTQGNC+ people are often seen as mentally ill, immoral, or un-African. As a conversion therapy survivor who has been outed without consent, Franceska regularly speaks out on how homophobic and transphobic laws endanger the lives and wellbeing of the LGBTQGNC+ community. Ballroom and ball\/house culture, depicted on shows such as FX\u2019s \u201cPose,\u201d have helped them undertake a process of identity making and remaking against pervasive notions of identity that are fixed and permanent in the broader society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:15px;\"><\/aside><a class=\"btn accent large \" href=\"https:\/\/thegreattitisabird.com\"  target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\">&#x1f99c;<\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column full_height=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680209143373{background-image: url(http:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FrancheskaNjanja.jpeg?id=2542) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1419024612249{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;background-color: #181818 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;custom_class&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1752284546849{background-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;]Sensitivity Editor, Performer &amp; Writer, The Great Tit is a Bird Franceska Njanja [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;show-for-large-up&#8221;] Franceska Njanja (they \/ them pronouns) is a Nairobi-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2540\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukodestudio.com\/dukodewop\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}