Beyond the Mountain (eBook, ePUB)

Queer Life in "Africa's Gay Capital"
Redaktion: Camminga, B.; Matebeni, Zethu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in "Africa's Gay Capital" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) communities in Cape Town.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000838190
• Artikelnr.: 66873610

Autorenporträt

B Camminga (*they) is post-doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits University. Their research interests include transgender rights, particularly in relation to migration and asylum; the bureaucratisation of sex/gender; and transgender history in South Africa. Their first monograph, Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies, in 2018. In 2018 they were runner up for the Africa Spectrum: Young African Scholars Award, which honours outstanding research by up-and-coming African scholars, for their article "Gender refugees in South Africa: The 'common sense' paradox." B treads the fine line of being a queer and a trans activist academic. Zethu Matebeni is African Humanities Program Fellow. While at the University of Cape Town (2001-2017), Zethu developed the Queer in Africa series, artistic and scholarly interventions which interrogate queer life in Africa. Included in Zethu's long list of publications are Reclaiming African: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities (Modjaji Books, 2014) and the co-edited Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship and Activism (Routledge, 2018). Zethu is a queer scholar activist, a documentary film maker, the curator of the Queer Tour in Cape Town and a writer on African queer realities. In June 2019 zethu joined the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of the Western Cape.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: iKapa Lodumo - An introduction to the infamous Cape Town
Prologue: Queering Cape Town's posture as "Africa's gay capital" PART I:
SPATIAL MAPPING OF PLACE AND MOVEMENT 1 Uncle Gravel 2 Of mountains and
multiculturalism: The Cape Town tourist gaze 3 Violent cistems: Trans
experiences of bathroom spaces 4 Drag lives here: A photo essay 5 Shifting
in the city: Being and longing in Cape Town PART II: HERSTORIES PAST AND
PRESENT 6 The politics of safety talk and practices: Lesbians constructing
belonging and queer world-making in Cape Town 7 The GALA archives:
Preserving the "queerer" side of queer Cape Town 8 Phoenix rising above
isolation 9 Unearthing silences about raced and gendered queerness in
Stellenbosch 10 The Miss Gay Western Cape Pageant: An alternative black
queer space 11 Black lesbian politics and organising spaces PART III: QUEER
PERFORMATIVITY IN THE CITY 12 Graaff's Pool: A photo essay 13 Scene of the
crime 14 InterseXion 15 Disruption and withdrawal: Responses to 21st
century Prides from the South 16 "Sy is 'n eendjie van 'n ander dam": Race,
class and sexual identity intersections in same-sex marriage 17 No milk, no
honey, no safe space: A review of The Promised Epilogue: No Easter Sunday
for queers