Rodelio performs a #hiddenBiGender piece.

Rodelio Lewis, also known as Miss Mavis, a radio broadcaster and award-winning performer, walked to the streets of Windhoek on Thursday 11th to perform his #hiddenBiGender piece. The show imagined and embodied a story of emancipation, queerness, body positivity, and taking up space. Bringing vitality and art to the city was the subject.

For those unfamiliar with the phrase, “Bigender” is a gender identity that can be interpreted as “two genders” or “double-gender,” according to gender activists and people who use it. A gender identity that falls under the umbrella concepts of multigender, nonbinary, and transgender.

The situation for LGBT individuals in Namibia has improved over time. OutRight Namibia, the country’s foremost LGBT advocacy organisation, was founded in March 2010. It aims to be “a voice for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and intersex persons in Namibia” and has organized Namibia’s first pride parades MPower Community Trust, which educates homosexual and bisexual men about sexual health, and the Namibian Gays and Lesbian Movement, which gives counselling and advice to LGBT persons and organizes educational events to improve awareness of LGBT Namibians, are two other LGBT organizations.

“And to everyone who showed up, y’all are everything, thank you,” he posted on Instagram. The following parties collaborated on the performance: Goethe-Institut Namibia and the Namibian National Theatre. “Every identity has the right to be seen in our society,” stated Zim Mabunzi, second runner-up at Miss South Africa 2021.