Safety and Wellness Guides for Queer Zimbabweans
Welcome to the Safety and Wellness Guides for Queer Zimbabweans. A resource library by Feminist Voices Zimbabwe, under the SAFE Project Being queer in Zimbabwe is powerful but it isn’t always safe. Every day, LGBTQIA+ people across the country navigate threats, silence, rejection, and the daily stress of surviving systems not built for us. But we also navigate care. Resistance. Joy. And community.That’s why we created the Safety and Wellness Guides for Queer Zimbabweans a growing library of free, downloadable tools built from the real stories, needs, and dreams of our community. Whether you’re figuring out how to come out, looking for ways to support a friend, or simply trying to feel okay in your body, these guides are for you.This collection is part of the SAFE Project (Safety, Access, Freedom, and Empowerment) by Feminist Voices Zimbabwe a community-driven initiative focused on reimagining what safety means for queer lives. These are not just guides. They are acts of care. Resistance documents. Survival maps. Soft landings. You Deserve This Safety is not a privilege it’s a right. Care is not a luxury it’s necessary. And queerness is not a risk it’s a gift. These guides exist because we believe in a future where queer Zimbabweans live fully, freely, and without fear. Welcome to your resource library. Welcome to the SAFE Project.
Family Guides
Family can hold love or harm, sometimes both. These guides help you navigate relationships with family, offering tools for communication, boundary-setting, safety, and finding or building chosen family when needed.
Guides for Allies
These are for those who want to stand with us. Whether you’re a parent, friend, teacher, or community member, these guides offer practical steps, reflections, and language to support queer people with care and courage.
Mental Health and Meditations
You deserve peace. These guides and meditations center your emotional wellbeing, offering language for what you’re feeling, tools for regulation, and soft spaces to rest, reflect, and rebuild from within.
Movement Building
Safety isn’t just individual, it’s collective. These guides support community organizing, digital advocacy, and strategies for building queer power and protection together.
Personal Journey
These guides are for your inner world the quiet, complex, powerful space where your identity and healing unfold. Whether you’re coming out, reclaiming your body, or navigating self-acceptance, these tools walk with you on your own terms.
Public Safety for LBQTs
From police to public transport, being visibly queer in Zimbabwe often carries risk. These guides help you move smarter and safer offering harm reduction tools, tips for navigating law enforcement, and advice for managing online and offline threats.
Reading List
We’ve curated affirming, accessible resources to expand your knowledge and your toolkit — from queer Zimbabwean writing to digital safety checklists, mental health support, and rights-based information you can trust.
Queer Content
These offerings celebrate queer life, culture, and creativity. From storytelling to joy practices, visual art to digital campaigns, this section holds our softness, our boldness, and our refusal to be erased. It’s not just about survival it’s about visibility, pleasure, and pride.
Solidarity
Our safety is collective. These resources explore how we show up for one another across movements, identities, and borders. Whether it’s mutual aid, intergenerational care, or cross-movement allyship, this section reminds us: none of us are free until all of us are safe.
Sexual Reproductive Health Rights
Your body, your health, your rights. These guides offer inclusive, accurate information on consent, contraception, pleasure, STI prevention, and access to queer-affirming health services because care should never be conditional.
Storytelling
We archive, we affirm, we resist. Through audio, visual, and written stories, this space holds the truths and dreams of queer Zimbabweans because telling our stories is an act of care, power, and survival.
Support for Trauma and Violence
These resources are for those surviving harm in relationships, families, or communities. They provide safety planning tools, emotional support, and affirming guidance for queer people navigating domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, or public harassment.
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