Aaiún Nin

Aaiún Nin is a non-binary person, born in Angola, writing poetry, creating mixed media art, and engaged in activism. Through their work, they explore and confront issues of race, gender and sexual discrimination, as well as LGBT+ experience. Their first poetry collection, Broken Halves of a Milky Sun was published in 2022 in the USA. Nin’s poetry draws upon the experience of childhood and youth spent in a patriarchal society and is strongly rooted in the context of postcolonial Africa. In their poems they often refer to the present situation in Angola, addressing problems of sexual violence inflicted on women, religious fundamentalism and the contradictions of Catholic doctrine, social inequalities and racism.