About Me


I am a disability justice and human rights strategist and a writer. Those two things are
not separate in my work. They shape each other.
I work across disability, queerness, gender, and asylum, from within these realities. That changes how I understand, speak, and challenge them.
My work is grounded in lived experience.
I am a queer, disabled Ugandan woman whose life and work have been shaped by
displacement and navigating complex systems across contexts.
This is not only personal.
It is a way of seeing how I understand the gaps within protection frameworks, how
accessibility is treated as optional, and how people living at intersections, including myself, are consistently left outside the systems that claim to serve us.
What I have lived reflects realities many others continue to navigate. 
This is what informs my work.

Gracie Brendah Nanyunja

Writing as Gracie Lunah Steph

I write, organize, and build inclusive and intersectional systems.

I work across disability, queerness, gender, and Asylum, shaping advocacy and
documenting lived realities.
My work moves between community, policy, and narrative.
Co-founder of the Diverse Empowerment Foundation, leading advocacy across more
than 20 countries. Recipient of the Hivos 2023 International Activist Award.

Welcome to my world, where love, storytelling, and advocacy find their voice.

Gracie Lunah Steph – Writer

Through words, strategy, and resistance, I create space for the lives and futures we deserve.​but same meaning

My Writing Journey

I began writing to give shape to experiences that often felt invisible. Over time, it grew into something larger: a legacy of storytelling that honors not only my own life but also the lives and struggles of communities I belong to.

My work spans memoir, essays, e-books, and graphic novels. Each carries a thread of truth and hope, exploring themes of displacement, queerness, disability, and the unshakable power of love and family