A Queering-to-Come

Kirk Fiereck is adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at City University of New York. He works on two long-term ethnographic projects. The first translates three-plus years of fieldwork into a book-length monograph, “Queer Customs: Cultural Authenticity, Sexual Ideology, and HIV Science in South Africa.” An open-access account of queer customs, “Queer Customs, Customarily Queer,” is available at www.medanthrotheory.org/read/10018/queer-customs-customarily-queer. The second project is a multisited ethnography of biofinance, which examines the rapid, fundamental changes to cultural economies globally that he summarizes as “the derivativization of sociality.” Derivativization is the transformation of commodity-based, labor-monetized value in industrial capitalisms to derivative-based, information-monetized value in financial capitalisms. His recent coauthored op-ed about bio-finance is available at www.forbes.com/sites/alisonbatemanhouse/2018/04/10/why-grindrs-privacy-breach-matters-to-everyone/#1913c6cf67f4.

Neville Hoad is associate professor of English and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization (2007) and coeditor (with Karen Martin and Graeme Reid) of Sex and Politics in South Africa: The Equality Clause/Gay and Lesbian Movement/The Antiapartheid Struggle (2005). He is currently working on a book project about the literary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, in addition to a sequel to African Intimacies titled “Erotopolitics: Africa, Sovereignty, Sexuality.”

Danai S. Mupotsa is senior lecturer in African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. She specializes in a range of subjects that include gender and sexualities, black intellectual traditions and histories, intimacy and affect, and feminist pedagogies. She has edited special issues, most recently “Visual Interruptions” (Girlhood Studies); “Xenophobia and the Techniques of Difference” (Agenda); “The Cinematic City: Desire, Form and the African Urban” (Journal of African Cinemas, forthcoming); and “Cinematic Imaginaries of the African City” (Social Dynamics, forthcoming). She has also published a collection of poetry titled feeling and ugly (2018).