Erasing 76 Crimes spoke with two Senegal lesbian activists about their experiences organizing for lesbians’ rights in the face of prevailing homophobia in Dakar. Awa (pseudonym): I’m the president of a women’s association [Editor’s note: for security reasons, the name of the organisation is being withheld] in Dakar and I can say that in the current political and social climate in Senegal, lesbians, although invisible in the public debate, are often exposed to corrective rape at an early age.