... in Western Queer Theory.” In Queer African Reader , edited by Ekine Sokari Abbas Hakima , 173 – 85 . Dakar, Senegal : Pambazuka . Cock Jacklyn . 2003 . “Engendering Gay and Lesbian Rights: The Equality Clause in the South African Constitution.” Women's Studies International Forum...

... African American Studies Blackening Queer Studies and Sexing Black Studies Rinaldo Walcott Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Dwight A. McBride New York: New York University Press, 2005. xiv + 251 pp. Dwight A. McBride has...

...Laura Edmondson In the burgeoning field of queer African studies, theatricality receives short shrift. Instead, anthropological studies of LGBTQ identities and practices in Africa emphasize theoretical frameworks of sexual discretion, elusiveness, and ambiguity. This essay explores...

... to bring to the fore: the problems of finding a usable past for both the lived experience and the study of African sexual subjects, and how queer theory elaborated from Africa can inform queer theory s Euro- American silent ethnocentrisms (see Camminga 2017; Matebeni 2014; Matebeni and Msibi 2015; Mupotsa...

... behind Us , 61 . New York : Norton . Macharia Keguro . 2015 . “Archive and Method in Queer African Studies,” Agenda 29 , no. 1 : 140 – 46 . McKittrick Katherine . 2006 . Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota...

... .” Hypatia 22 , no. 1 : 186 – 209 . Lugones Maria . 2010 . “ Towards a Decolonial Feminism .” Hypatia 25 , no. 4 : 742 – 59 . Macharia Keguro . 2015 . “ Archive and Method in Queer African Studies .” Agenda 29 , no. 1 : 140 – 46 . Marche Guillaume . 2012 . “ Why...

... Realm: How Black/Queer Renar-rativizes Anthropological Analysis .” Cultural Anthropology 31 , no. 4 : 617 – 26 . Allman Jean . 2018 . “ #HerskovitsMustFall? A Meditation on Whiteness, African Studies, and the Unfinished Business of 1968 .” Lecture given at the Annual Meeting...

...Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography—or better, oceanography—of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading...

... organized by a local activist on “how to be a real gay.” His field notes are fascinating, funny, and moving, and the book is an important contribution to work on postapartheid South Africa, the anthropology of sexuality, and the fledgling yet flourishing area of queer African studies. Reid found...

..., and theoretical innovation, I wonder what it means to have a special issue dedicated to Africa almost thirty years after the journal was first published in 1993. What kind of belatedness is at work, and how do I write with and into it? Five years ago, I was interested in queering African studies. If not Afri...

...Freda L. Fair Abstract This article examines Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 ( 1999 ) by Yvonne Welbon, an independent documentary film centered on the life of African American lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis to advance a queer of color theory of longevity. The analysis closely considers Ruth...

... Administrator of the Estate of James Cleveland and commentary from Cleveland's contemporaries, it exhumes Cleveland from dusty church closets for consideration in the history of HIV and AIDS in African American Protestant church and gospel communities and in Black queer studies, ethnomusicology, and gender...

..., translation, and African American studies, the implications of that “hallucinatory spiral” for queer theory deserve to be brought out in a sustained fashion. My analysis revolves around what makes Johnson’s “astonishing work” — to quote another phrase of Ronell’s — so astonish- ing: namely, her...

... on fieldwork conducted at an African American Pentecostal church led by a gay and same-gender-loving clergy, I offer a detailed study of how the gatherings and events at the church make available a mode of truth telling that activates capacities embedded in a transformative process of governing oneself...

... century References Abdur-Rahman Aliyyah . 2006 . “‘The Strangest Freaks of Despotism’: Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narrative.” African American Review 40 , no. 2 : 223 – 37 . Abdur-Rahman Aliyyah . 2012 . Against the Closet: Black Political Longing...

... and Julien did not exhibit passivity or a lack of willfulness but, rather, intellectually assented to the mystical and astrological rhetoric of des- tiny both as medium and as sarimbavy. Queer African studies a field within which Madagascar is itself queerly situated is nicely positioned to rethink queer...

...Xavier Livermon This essay argues that liberation is as much a sociocultural construct as it is a political or economic one. Extending the South African queer scholar Mikki van Zyl's analysis of the distinction between citizenship and belonging, I examine the concept of freedom in postapartheid...

... QUEER USES OF RELIGIOUS WORDS 289 cates, so much African American criticism, in an attempt to “right” the historical amnesia of official, national culture, elaborates “histories,” often shaping them through imaginative reconstructions of the African American past...

...- ratives of sexuality in the African context tend to foreclose any serious engage- ment with African queer anticolonialist politics (78 – 91). The persistent national- GLQ 21:2 – 3 © 2015 by Duke University Press 442 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES ist exclusion...

..., and Cathy Cohen in conversation inspires a conceptualization of queer as that which exceeds same-sex desire and sexual difference, pushing queer theory “beyond a normative/transgressive paradigm” (9). Queering Colonial Natal is a critical intervention into the fields of African studies, settler...