...Kirk Fiereck; Neville Hoad; Danai S. Mupotsa This introduction outlines the idea of the queer customary and how various African articulations of it engage, contest, and nuance central concerns of queer theory produced in the global North, particularly around ideas of normativity—hetero and homo...

...Kirk Fiereck This article explores how Black LGBTQ-identified and other gender nonconforming South Africans juxtapose the queer with the customary as they constitute forms of biofinancial personhood that are paradigmatic of capitalisms globally. These hybrid forms of personhood inadvertently index...

... organizational narrative is deeply imbricated. Organizations like Dutch international human rights funder Hivos that have funded the championing of sexual rights often fail to fully engage with and interrogate this (colonial) cultural archive. This is the customary in its hegemonic form. By deploying...

..., reveals NGOs, dismissed in critical scholarship as “unqueer”—for spreading homonationalism, sapping radical agendas by institutionalizing liberal human rights frameworks, and smuggling in Euro-American logics of sexual modernity—to be unlikely sites of queer complexity. Reading NGO spaces as customary...

..., it illustrates how whiteness is regularly affirmed as common sense in contrast to racial otherness. The essay additionally insists on examining films defying the customary aesthetic expectations of film critics in order to investigate the evocative representations they proffer. Copyright © 2019 Duke University...

... were to be left to the customary law of these societies, and if the customary law was too difficult to ascertain — ­it could be invented. Either way, its codification represents an intervention. In South Africa Theophilus Shepstone’s drafting of an ordinance recognizing Nguni customary law...

... . “ Traditional Woman-to-Woman Marriages, and the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act .” Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 63 , no. 2 : 274 – 82 . Osinubi Taiwo Adetunji . 2018 . “ The Promise of Lesbians in African Literary History .” College Literature 45 , no. 4 : 673 – 84...

... indigenous man from Oaxaca who was “uninstructed in the Christian doctrine,” was handed over to colonial authorities and interrogated during his criminal trial, as was customary. In explicit detail, Lázaro Martínez confessed the following: Two women found him in the graveyard of San Juan de...

... and refusing to accept the irrelevance of customary sexu- ality and gender to modern life. Traditional Indigenous law would no longer have any part in the common world, no matter that the traditional Aboriginal law was a product of the common world of settler...

... in the romance of the dreamlike room. They perform oral sex in a 69, and as we see West showcasing her awe- some talents at fellatio, we also see and hear her expressions of pleasure in the act. During penetration she recites the customary complement to male costars: You re so big! Yet while she performs...

..., uncurious femininity and to visual, formal, and psychoanalytic constructions of phallic power, not least through Breillat’s refusal to cloak the male actors’ erections through the customary and mythologiz- ing logic of displacement. For Lacan, the phallus is “the signifier that is destined...

... and gay identity takes on hybrid forms and articulations. The relation of questions of tradition and customary law to citizen- ship in South Africa is enormously complex, given the dual nature of tradition as a site of resistance to apartheid and as a part of apartheid’s legacy in the form...

... foothills. As much as I now try, I cannot remember if we talked about Christmas, though I do recall that the restaurant was packed that night and that people were dressed up more than is customary in Tucson (even for the tony foothills). Wittig arranged for us to be seated on a brown leather sofa...

... in their Skype conversations and various flirtatious comments, Beka stops short of declaring her sexuality. In keeping with the customary practice of discretion and balance, she walks an ambiguous line; it is noteworthy that these Skype conversations occur only when she is alone in the Telekom office, allowing...

... between and survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. I outline the customary norms, mutual obligations, and practices that made up the kids’ public cultures and show how urban renewal and attendant policing in cities across the United States in the 1950s and 1960s violated those norms...

.... This is reflected in the codification of proper marriage in both Ugandan customary and penal code edicts that outlaw same- sexuality in Uganda. It is unsurprising that the postcolonial archive of Museveni and Ssempa deploys the same logic and register in using Mwanga to recodify exclusion and criminalization...

... Figure 1. Aiigiiste Kodin, The Kiss. 1886. registered through the woman’s groans and facial expressions while the man appears comparatively unaffected, despite his customary energy and athleticism. It is note- Northy that Cliampigneulle does not actually identify the characteristics...

...: a libidinal economy of sameness whose participants nevertheless wander or stray from their customary or expected courses in unpredictable and surprising ways and whose energy depends on the very unfixability of those erotic identifications and exchanges. If the Lexington Club is where the women...

... Doyle’s own experiment in performing the effects of intimacy, sentimentality, and pornography that she analyzes. The queer feminist aesthetics of its style appear also in the cheeky, confes- sional play with academic book structure. In the customary location...

... Doyle’s own experiment in performing the effects of intimacy, sentimentality, and pornography that she analyzes. The queer feminist aesthetics of its style appear also in the cheeky, confes- sional play with academic book structure. In the customary location...