ACC Deputy Director Andrew Tucker has edited a special issue of Urban Forum under the banner of African Urban Sexualities after Queer Visibilities.
This issue brings together emergent thought on the topic of African urban sexualities, and specifically non-heteronormative sexualities. It therefore also implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, asks the question: What does it mean—and why is it important—to study or examine African urban sexualities (and especially non-heteronormative sexualities) today?
This open access issue features nine articles from authors Gustav Visser, Zuziwe Khuzwayo, John Marnell, Xavier Livermon, Mark Gevisser, Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio, and the late Eddie Ombagi.
CONTENTS
African Urban Sexualities After Queer Visibilities – Andrew Tucker
Nairobi Queer Visibilities/Invisibilities and Forms of Queer Ambivalence – Eddie Ombagi
Moving Beyond the Gay Metropolises: Lessons Learned from Stellenbosch – Gustav Visser
Navigating Urban Spaces as Queer Women in South Africa – Zuziwe Khuzwayo
City Streets and Disco Beats: Recentring the Urban in Queer and Trans Migration Studies – John Marnell
Inxeba: Rethinking Dichotomies of Black Queer Visibilities – Xavier Livermon
The Hirschfeld Equation and the Queer Afro-Modern – Mark Gevisser
Queer Infrastructures: Objects of and Orientations towards Urban Research Practice – Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio
Charting Directions for—and Challenges at Being Able to Undertake—Future Research on African Urban Sexualities – Andrew Tucker