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Actress Dalila Ali Rajah Amplifies Black Queer Joy on Instagram
Cherry Bomb, Dalila Ali Rajah (above), was inspired to create the Instagram account @BlackQueerJoy after watching the groundbreaking film about young Kenyan women who fall in love, Rafiki, with her trans son at Outfest Fusion in 2018. “There came a point where they were in a very heightened state of joy and I had this sinking feeling in my body of like, ‘Oh no. Something horrible is going to happen,’” she says of watching the film with her son.“It set me reeling.