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...Anima Adjepong Abstract This commentary makes a case for developing trans sports studies out of queer African feminism. Queer African feminism is an epistemological orientation that affirms a flexible gender system, despite contemporary colonial gender ideologies, which insist on biological...

... to articulate our politics and obtain conceptual clarity on working with feminist ideas. We have adopted the African Trans Feminist Charter at this momentous occasion. * * * We recognize and acknowledge that this document is not cast in stone and that we will find ways to develop mechanisms to review...

...B Camminga Abstract South Africa is the only country on the African continent that not only recognizes but also constitutionally protects and offers asylum to transgender-identified individuals. On entering the country, an individual has fourteen days to report to a Refugee Reception Office...

...Liesl Theron; Tshepo Ricki Kgositau Abstract This paper demonstrates the enthusiasm of the young trans movement in sub-Saharan Africa. The rich history of the struggles and successes of various trans-related events and work in the African continent has not been documented. With this first...

...Simon D. Elin Fisher Abstract This article investigates the history of intersectional feminism and demonstrates that the theory is grounded in a trans-of-color analysis of the racial caste system known as “Jim Crow.” In 1944, Pauli Murray, an African American activist, journalist, and lawyer...

...Matt Richardson Abstract This article puts forward a consideration of Black womanhood by looking at the softcore films starring African American trans model and actress, Ajita Wilson. Wilson starred in many European softcore and hardcore films from the 1970s until her death in 1987. The author...

... in the Brazilian African diaspora with the debates on trans and black fugitive principles in the United States indexed in the work of Tourmaline, Miss Major, C. Riley Snorton, Saidiya Hartman, and James Ford III, to name a few. Foregrounding black trans experiences from the southern hemisphere in relationship...

... the whole of humanity. This review expands and creates an entry point for interreligious dialogue with African diasporic religions, by acknowledging humanity as a part of the interconnected balance of nature and recognizing the influence the Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish , had on the the deep...

... through the sections of this text, be it as rain, as tears, as sea, as metaphor, as body, as energy. The author suggests that, for black trans people in the African diaspora, trans travel narratives evoke the metaphor of transitioning in the similar ways that M. Jacqui Alexander works with the metaphor...

... wait to see how this new, decolonial way of studying will be taken up in the future and to which avenues of research it will give rise. Bring it on, girlfriends and boyfriends and everyone in between in diasporic space! Third, Ezili's Mirrors marks an important moment in African diaspora studies...

... genderqueer modes of being, which should be understood as “any gender (or lack of gender) that would not be adequately represented by an either/or choice between ‘man’ or ‘woman’” (Titman 2014 ). Scholar of African American religions Albert J. Raboteau ( 1978 : 16) writes: “The gods of Africa were...

... of Trans Identity . Using Spiller's theories on the “ungendering of African female flesh” as a guide, Snorton ( 2017 : 12) argues, “the fungibility of captive flesh produced a critical context for understanding sex and gender as mutable and subject to rearrangement.” To make this argument Snorton begins...

... States as an “African” problem overdetermined by the poverty, passivity, and bestial nature of “Africans.” That narrative also contrasted a naturalized and indigenous “African AIDS,” transmitted by the natural hypersexuality of all Africans, with an unnatural American HIV/AIDS tied mostly to an immoral...

... . “ Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual .” Signs 42 , no. 4 : 819 – 41 . Bakare-Yusuf Bibi . 2003 . “ Yorubas Don't Do Gender: A Critical Review of Oyeronke Oyewumi's ‘The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses.’ ” African Identities...

... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 One night in June 2011, as they walked through a South Minneapolis neighborhood to the grocery store, CeCe McDonald, a young African American trans woman...

... on the extent of her impact. Writer and Hollywood icon Janet Mock ( 2020 ) credits TransGriot as a space “where I learned about our long and deep history as Black trans folks.” Established in 2006, TransGriot was named for the West African storytellers who served as “a visible and tangible human link...

... revolve around deeply embodied experiences. As with the alternative archival historiographies that are detailed in the first two articles, Liesl Theron and Tshepo Ricki Kgositau stake out new archival territory in their article “The Emergence of a Grassroots African Trans Archive.” As part...

... was afraid to be confronted with hostility in the Black community. I'd already had my fill from white, heteronormative dominant society. I did not want to suffer that yet again among my Black sisters and brothers. Back then, in the company of my fellow African compatriots, an outspoken animosity...

... at costs, but at whose expense?” No matter how much I would try to struggle around this, educate my comrades and myself on things related to gender diversity and African culture, how patriarchy throughout the world is tied to colonialism and capitalism, it wasn't going anywhere. They were nationalists...

... and grassroots queer archives often don't do a good job at actively participating in the documentation and preservation of the artifacts, stories, and materials of black and African diasporic cultural production and activism ( Flinn, Stevens, and Shepherd 2009 ) despite a stated desire by community members...