Queer African Reader
- Creator / Contributor:
- Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas
- Date Created / Date Issued:
- 2013
- Rights - Use and Reproduction:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Type:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Topic:
- Homosexuality -- Africa| Gays -- Africa| Lesbians -- Africa| Transgender people -- Africa| Human rights -- Africa| Queer theory| Feminism
- Source Collection Identifier:
- ISBN: 0857490990 (paperback)| ISBN: 9780857490995 (paperback)| OCLC: (OCoLC)806013085
- Source Collection Name:
- Black Queer Studies Collection
- Table of Contents:
- An essay / David Kato Kisule | 'In sisterhood and solidarity': queering African feminist spaces / Awino Okech | Postcolonial discourses of queer activism and class in Africa / Lyn Ossome | Disability and desire: journey of a film-maker - life story / Shelley Barry | African LGBTI manifesto/declaration | 'Proudly African & transgender': collaborative portraits and stories with trans and intersex activists / Gabrielle Le Roux | The vampire bite that brought me to life - fiction / Nancy Lylac Warinda | Contesting narratives of queer Africa / Sokari Ekine | African statement in response to British government on aid conditionality | Straight to the matter - fiction / Olumide Popoola | The face I love: Zanelle Muholi's 'Faces and phases' / Raél Jero Salley | Caster runs for me / Ola Osaze | Transsexuals' nightmare: activism of subjugation? / Audrey Mbugua | The media, the tabloid and the Uganda homophobia spectacle / Kenne Mwikya | The single story of 'African homophobia' is dangerous for LGBTI activism / Sibongile Ndashe | Telling stories - fiction / Happy Mwende Kinyili | 'Faces and phases' / Zanele Muholi | Twice removed: African invisibility in Western queer theory / Douglas Clarke | NGOs and queer women's activism in Nairobi / Kaitlin Dearham | The struggle for intersex rights in Africa / Julius Kaggwa | African statement on sexual orientation and gender identity | Queerying borders: an Afrikan activist perspective / Bernedette Muthien | LGBTI-Queer struggles like other struggles in Africa / Gathoni Blessol | Small axe at the crossroads: a reflection on African sexualities and human rights - life story / Kagendo Murungi | Nature ain't rigid - poem / Mia Nikasimo | On the paradoxical logic of intersections: a mathematical reading of the reality of homosexuality in Africa / Charles Gueboguo | Mounting homophobic violence in Senegal / Mouhamadou Tidiane Kassé | Queer Kenya in law and policy / Keguro Macharia | Nhorondo -mawazo yetu : tracing life back : our reflections - life story / Zandile Makahamadze and Kagendo Murungi | Tell the sun not to shine - fiction / Diriye Osman | What's in a letter? / Valerie Mason-John | Does the label fit? / Liesl Theron | Human rights and legal implications of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill, 2011 for every Nigerian citizen | Deconstructing violence towards black lesbians in South Africa / Zethu Matebeni | Zanele Muholi's intimate archive: photography and post-apartheid lesbian lives / Kylie Thomas | The portrait - fiction / Pamella Dlungwana | Seeing beyond colonial binaries: unpacking Malawi's homosexuality discourse / Jessie Kabwila | The movement building boot camp for Queer East African activists: an experiment in revolutionary love / Jessica Horn | The most fabulous place on earth – poem / a poem in many voices | Crimson waves - fiction / Hakima Abbas | African conversations on gender identity and ICD classifications | Remember me when I'm gone / Busisiwe Sigasa