The Woman Who Poked the Leopard

Ugandan medical anthropologist and queer rights activist Stella Nyanzi fears for her life yet fights oppression through radical rudeness, provocative poetry, and traditional tactics like nudity. She champions LGBT equality, minority rights, and feminist causes while directing potty-mouthed attacks at authoritarian president Yoweri Museveni. In 2017 she was arrested after posting a poem on social media with scabrous, scatological, and vulgar insults against him.