1st Edition
Queer Southern Africa Temporalities, Bodies, and Belonging
Foreword
Wisani Mushwana
Introduction: New perspectives on queer embodiment and belonging in South(ern) Africa
Lwando Majikijela and Gibson Ncube
1. Black queer joy: An epistemological lens for African queer studies
Nojenda Zwelidumile Ndungane
2. The muted emancipation: Translating Black queer ‘soft landings’ in contemporary South Africa
mpho ndaba
3. Queer intimacy, space, and black masculinities in South African mining townships
Lwando Majikijela
4. ‘We are not all lesbians in the same way’: Exploring queer intersectionalities and theoretical frameworks
Kgaladi Makhafola
5. The body as a site of making gender non-conforming identities at Sol Plaatje University
Lovies Aletta Itlhabanyeng
6. ‘Gays and straights just don’t get it!’: ‘Managing’ biphobia and stigma in Johannesburg (South Africa) amongst bisexual women
Zuziwe Khuzwayo
7. The intersection of queer precarity, resilience, and mental health in Gaborone, Botswana
David Sidney Mangwegape
8. Carrying home across borders: Queer guilt, family, and the limits of liberation in Chido Muchemwa’s Who Will Bury You?
Gibson Ncube
9. ‘Oh, the enemy thought he had me. But Jesus said you are mine’: The violence of deliverance ministry
Mpumelelo Phakathi
10. Kapana: Performance as method in African queer cinematic cultures
Nashilongweshiphe Sakaria
11. What I call ‘recitation’ on sex: Public spaces as safe zones to ‘recite’ queer sex
Lwando Majikijela
12. Queer sankofarration: (Re)imagining/(Re)visioning queer histories in Desire Marea’s acrylic on canvas series ‘The Baddies of Isandlwana’
Gibson Ncube
13. Afterword: Doing queer studies in Southern Africa: A provocation on content and form
Gibson Ncube
Biography
Lwando Majikijela is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of South Africa. He is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research spans gender and sexuality studies, queer, Black subalternities, and visual culture.
Gibson Ncube is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. His research lies at the intersection of literary, gender, queer, and cultural studies. He works across Anglophone and Francophone Africa.
