House: How is life treating you living in Brixton, compared with your home country in Africa?
Bin: I am not living yet.
H: What do you mean?
Bin: I am not living yet in Brixton, I am staying in Brixton.
H: What is stopping you from living?
Bin: I have to wait for the Home Office.
A character transforms her life stories into the rooms of a house; another becomes a bin; others become a dream, a soft stud, a super lover and a gun who transforms into a camera... The characters are part of Staying: Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories, a project by artist Oreet Ashery and twelve lesbian asylum seekers and refugees who fled Nigeria, Uganda, Angola, Gambia, Jamaica, Barbados and other countries after suffering traumatising discrimination against their sexual identity and orientation.
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