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After two years, our book is finally out! Not even a global pandemic could hold back the stories in this book. Thanks to all our authors for their brilliant and inspiring chapters!

@CiocchiniPablo Jayson Joe Greener Veronica L. Gregorio jose atiles João A Monteiro Neto Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer Marta Machado Request your library to order a copy of check out the chapters here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Omar van Reenen, from Namibia, has become the first LGBTQI+ rights activist to win the prestigious Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize. In their acceptance speech, van Reenen offered an impassioned message of hope for young queer Africans. mambaonline.com/2024/10/11/nam…

The first openly transgender lawyer is set to argue at the Supreme Court, marking a groundbreaking moment for both the legal profession and the trans community. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/fi…

Strangely, it's moments like this that I feel most lucky to be queer. I think about our elders. How hopeless they must have felt. How easy it would have been to give up. But they fought for the life I get to live today. What an insult it would be, to them, to succumb to despair

“Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, ‘Is this enough for me?’” - Ocean Vuong

🚨New Journal Article🚨 Ramalekana, N., & Mokgoroane, L. (2024). Intersectionality in the South African Constitution’s Equality Clause. South African Journal on Human Rights, 1–27. OPEN ACCESS: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I am grateful to have won the QASA prize for Best Published Scholarly Essay in the field of Queer African Studies in 2023 by a Graduate Student for my essay "A Queer Chinkhoswe: Re-imagining the Customary in Malawi" link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

BREAKING: Mali criminalizes same-sex relationships with up to 7 years in prison and bans any form of LGBTQ+ advocacy.

We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality, it's not critical race theory. They're coming after the entire infrastructure that has been created from the civil rights movement.

My piece on #disability, #equality, and reasonable accommodation available in #ConstitutionalCourtReview! Inspired by Graeber, that "the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently." journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.29…

An article I co-authored with Nomfundo Ramalekana on Rafoneke v Minister of Justice (arguably the worst judgement ever handed down by the Constitutional Court) has just been published. It's open access and can be accessed here: journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.29…

The winners of the QASA Essay Prize for 2023 have been announced! 🎉 The prize celebrates critical interventions by junior scholars in queer African studies. Congratulations to Efemia Chela, Renugan Raidoo (Renugan Raidoo) & Nigel Patel! brittlepaper.com/2025/02/qasa-a…

Nyasa Rainbow Alliance #QueerMalawi

Hackney Half 2025!