• PART I: The politics of belonging - questioning queer kinship and belonging
• 1. Chosen family: A photographic essay Germaine de Larch
• 2. Focus on 'the family'? How South African family policy fails queer families Catriona Ida Macleod, Tracy Morison and Ingrid Lynch
• 3. Revisiting 'familyhood' and queer belonging: Exploring queer collectivities created through culture and leisure practices Desiree Lewis
• 4. Spectres to come: Reproductive futurism, queer Africa, die-ins and drag Jaco Barnard-Naude
• 5. Esibathandayo
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What makes kinship queer? This collection from leading and emerging thinkers in gender and sexualities interrogates the politics of belonging, shining a light on the outcasts, rebels, and pioneers. Queer Kinship brings together an array of thought-provoking perspectives on what it means to love and be loved, to 'do family' and to belong in the South African context. The collection includes a number of different topic areas, disciplinary approaches, and theoretical lenses on familial relations, reproduction, and citizenship. The text amplifies the voices of those who are bending, breaking, and remaking the rules of being and belonging. Photo-essays and artworks offer moving glimpses into the new life worlds being created in and among the 'normal' and the mundane. Taken as a whole, this text offers a critical and intersectional perspective that addresses some important gaps in the scholarship on kinship and families. Queer Kinship makes an innovative contribution to international studies in kinship, gender, and sexualities. It will be a valuable resource to scholars, students, and activists working in these areas.
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Johann Nel, die Skierlik-moordenaar, gevonnis tot 168 jaar gevangenisstraf, vind liefde. Die vrou trou met hom, teen alle raad... Dít is ver van die enigste geval van so 'n verhouding. Van diewe tot geweldsmisdadigers - selfs moordenaars - vind liefde. Carla van der Spuy voer openhartige gesprekke met verskeie sulke mense, en gaan klop ook aan by kenners om uit te vind wat sulke verhoudings dryf.

"Vuyolwethu and Loxolo Ndamase are childhood sweethearts with a love as pure as their commitment to each other. When tragedy strikes it significantly alters their reality forever and leaves them shattered. Will their destined love withstand the consuming darkness ot the abyss or will they come out stronger than before? Ryan Cook struggles with a sense of belonging since his parents disowned him and chased him away with only the clothes on his back. When his life finally makes sense and he finds a chance at love, lies and secrets are revelaed threatening his sanity. Will he ever find a place to belong to? Lubabalo Sobukwe is a pastor's kid raised under the strong principles of his father's church. He has kept a secret that he knows would kill his father and destroy his family if it ever came out. When he finds love it becomes increasingly difficult to conceal his sexuality and it forces him to make a choice. Will he continue to live a lie, or will the love he's found free him to embrace who he is? Follow their lives as they deal with love, identity, pain, loss and secrets that make them realise that family ties aren't always formed by blood"--Back cover.

• Introduction: (Un)settling Violence
• Chapter 1. "Double the Trouble": Gender and Sexuality (Un)corrected
• Chapter 2. The Violence of Racialisation, The Racialisation of Violence
• Chapter 3. View to a Kill: The Politics of Spectacle
• Chapter 4. Assimilation and Ascendance: Violent Differentiation in Post-Colonial Context
• Chapter 5. Law, Education and a Not-Only LGBT Revolution Conclusion: Trouble the Dreams of Political Possibility.
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As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence constitute subjectivities that enact violence and that are rendered vulnerable to it, as well as shaping political possibilities to act against violence. Blackwashing Homophobia critiques prevailing discourses through which violence and its queer targets are normatively understood, exploring the knowledge regimes in which multiple forms of othering are both reproduced and/or resisted. This book draws on primary research on lesbian subjectivity and violence in South Africa examining the intersections of sexual, gender, race and class identities, and the contemporary politics of violence in a postcolonial context: * What are the contending ways of knowing queers and the violence they face? * How are the causes, characters, consequence of, and 'cures' for, violence constructed through such knowledges and what are their power effects? The book explores these questions and their implications for how violence, as an instrument of power, might be countered. Blackwashing Homophobia is a timely intervention for theorising the discourse of homophobia-related violence and what it reveals and conceals, enables and hinders, in relation to queer identities and political imaginaries in times of violence. The book's interdisciplinary approach to the topic will appeal to social and political scientists, philosophers and psychology professionals, as well as to advanced psychology undergraduates and postgraduates alike.
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• Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Adrian's Desire Work
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• 1. Cultural Convergences
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• 2. Building Godly Emotional Intimacy
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• 3. Becoming Spiritual Warriors: Learning How to Fight Demonic Sexual Desires
• 87
• 4. Mastering Romance and Sexual Feelings
• 115
• 5. "I Didn't Fall, I'm Free": Leaving Healing Revelation Ministries
• 139 Afterword
• 165 Notes
• 171 References
• 177 Index 197.
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In postapartheid Cape Town-Africa's gay capital-many Pentecostal men turned to "ex-gay" ministries in hopes of "curing" their homosexuality in order to conform to conservative Christian values and African social norms. In Desire Work Melissa Hackman traces the experiences of predominantly white ex-gay men as they attempt to forge a heterosexual masculinity and enter into heterosexual marriage through emotional, bodily, and religious work. These men subjected themselves to daily self-surveillance and followed prescribed behaviors such as changing how they talked and walked. Ex-gay men also saw themselves as participating in the redemption of the nation, because South African society was perceived as suffering from a crisis of masculinity in which the country lacked enough moral heterosexual men. By tying the experience of ex-gay men to the convergence of social movements and public debates surrounding race, violence, religion, and masculinity in South Africa, Hackman offers insights into the construction of personal identities in the context of sexuality and spirituality.
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• 1. From silence to visibility
• 2. Theoretical and methodological framing
• 3. Same-sex practices and Zulu masculinity in an evolving post-apartheid South Africa
• 4. Zulu culture and Christianity: A marriage of convenience in advancing homophobia
• 5. Internalized homophobia: Passing to conform
• 6. Passing for opportunity: The unconstrained sexual liaisons?
• 7. Passing at school: excellence and professionalism as a coping mechanisms
• 8. Conclusion.
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South Africa remains a global leader in the legislative protection of individuals who engage in same-sex relations, and is the only country in Africa where the rights of these individuals are explicitly recognized and protected by the constitution. Yet South Africa's identities are still contested and evolving, particularly for same-sex desiring teachers - many are forced to locate their sexualities privately for fear of being ostracized, bullied or losing their jobs, resulting in the miseducation of young people in schools. This volume reveals the various ways in which black South African male teachers construct their sexual and professional identities, how they accommodate structural dictates while simultaneously resisting them, and the effect this has on students. Presenting the day-to-day experiences of eight same-sex desiring teachers within repressive contexts, this volume challenges the Western origins and assumptions of queer theory, particularly its inability to confront communal forms of social organizing and its focus on individual agency. It asks for more socially responsive theorizing that takes into account the role played by location, race, class, gender and sexual identification within South African and international contexts.
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• 1. Sex, violence and politics: the research problem2. Armed conflict and sexual para-politics in Colombia3. Homophobia in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa4.The chiaroscuro of sexual politics5. Telling truths about violence6. Gender and sexual orders making the new society.
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This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions. Examining countries not often connected in the same research-Colombia and South Africa-the book asserts that homophobia, as a form of gender and sexual violence, contributes to the transformation of gender and sexual orders required by warfare and deployed by armed groups. Anti-homosexual violence also reinforces the creation of consensus around these projects of change. The book considers the perspective of individuals and their organizations, for whom such hatreds are part of the embodied experience of violence caused by protracted conflicts and social inequalities. Resistance to that violence are reason to mobilize and become political actors. This book contributes to the increasing interest in South-South comparative analyses and the need of theory building based on case-study analyses, offering systematic research useful for grass root organizations, practitioners, and policy makers.
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• The fourteen submissions included in the anthology are:Farah Ahamed, Poached Eggs (Fiction, Kenya) A subtle, slow and careful rendering of the everyday rhythms of domestic terror that pays homage to the long history of women's resistance. Written with wit, humour and grit, the story also sings of freedom, resistance and the desire to be unbound.Beyers de Vos, 'A Place of Greater Safety' (Journalism, South Africa) This piece covers the underground issues that are seldom discussed in the South African LGBT+ movement - homelessness, poverty, as well as attraction and violence - with empathy, real curiosity and knowledge.Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese, 'Midnight in Lusikisiki' (Poetry, South Africa) This poem hums with sadness and sings with anger. It is full of the sort of melancholy that marks the passing of something very important. It provides an opportunity to connect the theme of gender with issues of poverty and political corruption.Dilman Dila, Two Weddings for Amoit (Fiction, Uganda) A fresh piece of sci-fi written in a clear and bright way that surprisingly draws on covert and subversive love.Justin Dingwall, 'Albus' (Photography, South Africa) The choice of exquisitely beautiful high-fashion models to represent people with albinism - who are so often depicted as unattractive - is just breathtaking. It makes its point and leaves you wanting more.Amatesiro Dore, For Men Who Care (Fiction, Nigeria) A complex and thoughtful insight into a part of elite Nigerian life, as well as the ways in which buying into certain brands of patriarchy can be so deeply damaging and have direct and unavoidable consequences.Tania Haberland, 'Resurrection' (Poetry, Mauritius) An erotic poem that is powerful in its simple celebration of the clit.Julia Hango, 'Intertwined Odyssey' (Photography, South Africa) A solid and thought-provoking collection that forces questions about power. The photos make the lovers (or are they fighters?) equal in their nakedness and in their embodiment of discomfort.Dean Hutton, 'Dean's Bed' (Photography, South Africa) An important contribution to conversations about bisexuality, attraction, age and race.Otosirieze Obi-Young, You Sing of a Longing (Fiction, Nigeria) A thoroughly modern epic yet with bones as old as time. This is a story of love and betrayal and madness and music that is all the more beautiful for its plainspoken poignancy. But there is also prose in here that takes your breath away.Olakunle Ologunro, The Conversation (Fiction, Nigeria) Provides valuable insight into issues of intimate partner violence, family acceptance and the complexity of gender roles in many modern African contexts.Ayodele Sogunro, 'One More Nation Bound in Freedom' (Academic, Nigeria) An informative piece that gives a crisp and 'objective' voice to the many themes that cut across this anthology.Sarah Waiswa, 'Stranger in a Familiar Land' (Photography, Kenya) This collection of photos showcases the best of African storytelling. The images take risks and speak of danger and subversion yet, at the same time, they are deeply rooted in places that are familiar to urban Africans.
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Pride and Prejudice is the first in the Gerald Kraak Anthology series. The kaleidoscopic collection comprises the most exceptional written and photographic entries for the annual Gerald Kraak Award, which was established in 2016 by The Other Foundation and the Jacana Literary Foundation.Offering important African perspectives gathered from the continent, this inaugural edition features works of fiction, journalism, photography and poetry. The pieces are multi-layered, brave and stirring. They represent a new wave of fresh storytelling that provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality.These finalists were selected by a judging panel made up of distinguished gender activist Sisonke Msimang (chair of the panel and series editor), prominent social and political analyst Eusebius McKaiser and leading African feminist Sylvia Tamale. The winner, chosen from the submissions included in Pride and Prejudice, will be announced at an event hosted by The Other Foundation in May 2017." In the current political environment, we are hopeful that expressions like the ones we have chosen - that do not shy away from pain and are deeply inventive - find their way into the public consciousness. We think Gerald Kraak would have smiled at a number of these entries. Above all, we have aimed to stay true to his love of fearless writing and support of courageous and grounded activism." - Sisonke MsimangCreated in honour of the late activist Gerald Kraak and his extraordinary legacy of supporting human rights, the Gerald Kraak Award and the resulting anthology aim to advance his contribution to building a world that is safe and welcoming to all. Pride and Prejudice is being distributed as widely as possible throughout the African continent by Jacana Media and like-minded publishers in an effort to share ideas that promote equal rights for everyone.
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