“More Than Words”: Now Available For Purchase!

Our long-awaited illustrated book of queer stories, “More Than Words”, is now available for purchase! “More Than Words” brings together selected autobiographical words from the Stories of Our Lives documentary archive and new works of romance, young-adult, sci-fi, and fantasy fiction stories, sprinkled with original commissioned illustrations to expand further into black, African queer experiences.

NewsThe Nest Collective18 October 2023More Than Words, Stories of Our Lives

Exhibition & Book Launch: “Stories of Our Lives: In Search of Queer Sanctuaries” at the Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣΤ)

We are thrilled to present “Stories of Our Lives: In Search of Queer Sanctuaries” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣΤ) in Athens, Greece, which will be opening on Friday 29th September 2023! Curated by Ioli Tzanetaki, this archive installation comprises photographs, illustrations, soundscapes (we’re thrilled to feature among these, a prayer for queer Africans by multi-disciplinary artists Adeola Aderemi, who also shared a podcast on ancestral veneration for our Queer Joy project!) and transcribed excerpts from countless intimate conversations.

NewsThe Nest Collective28 September 2023Stories of Our Lives, Queer Sanctuaries, EMST

Stories of Our Lives: Now on Showmax South Africa!

Our anthology film’ Stories of Our Lives’ is now showing on ShowMax South Africa! Stories of Our Lives began as a documentary archival project in 2013 (yes, it has really been that long!). We collected over 250 stories of Kenyans identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex from 9 cities and towns all over the country: those stories are some of the most beautiful, joyful, sad, intimate, futuristic, wild, glorious, inappropriate, nostalgic and wholesome narratives we’ve ever been honoured with, and we remain grateful to this day to all the wonderful people who shared such personal moments with us.

NewsThe Nest Collective29 November 2020Stories of Our Lives, Showmax

DIFF 2017 Focus on Kenya / The Nest Collective in Durban

Our Head of Production Njeri Gitungo and Sunny Dolat represented us as part of the Kenyan delegation that went to the 2017 edition of the Durban International Film Festival, where three of our films - Homecoming, Stories of Our Lives and To Catch A Dream – were screened as part of the festival’s Focus on Kenyan Filmmaking.