A small but vocal lobby – some aided by US conservatives – have drawn battle lines around unisex bathrooms and gender pronouns.
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Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.
Kenya’s LGBTI community continues to face the deadly consequences of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
LGBTI refugees from other countries expect Kenya to be safer but are quickly disillusioned.
Discussions about the films on social media and online forums show that African queer lives are complex and don’t tell a single story.
Aliens arrive in Lagos in Nnedi Okorafor’s celebrated sci-fi novel Lagoon – and with them they bring a future free of restrictive gender norms.
A celebration of life, love and resilience, The Rise and Fall of Saint George is a restorative experience.
It wasn’t just the film Rafiki - a joyful lesbian love story - but also the experience of going to watch it after it was unbanned that created a new kind of freedom.
Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
The artist’s body of work, through its very public focus on queer masculinity, offers alternative ways of thinking about what being a man is.
Despite Nigeria’s draconian laws against homosexuality, authors like the award-winning Akwaekwe Emezi are important new voices that add complexity to the question of identity.
Desmond Tutu is by far the most high-profile African, if not global, religious leader to support lesbian and gay rights, and he has done so since the 1970s.
The recent ruling to decriminalize same sex behaviour in Botswana may have a positive impact on the rest of southern Africa.
The High Court’s ruling goes against the trend of greater liberalisation in a number of African countries.
Morocco’s law combines with a strongly conservative society to create a real sense of danger among LGBTIQ people.
Family support, being valued in their own homes and enjoying strong support from their social structures helped instill lesbians in a conservative South African province with a strong sense of self.
Personal freedoms and self-expression have come under attack.
Until African political systems become less majoritarian and do a better job of protecting the rights of minorities, the true benefits of a democratic government are unlikely to be realised.
Many people use religion and culture as explanations for their homophobic attitudes.
Principais colaboradores
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Gothenburg
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Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Associate professor in political sociology, SOAS, University of London
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Journalism, Rhodes University
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Professor of Political Studies, Rhodes University
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Jenny Graves é um amigo do The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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South African Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies, University of Fort Hare
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Director of the Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Systems (Match) at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
