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The muted emancipation: Translating Black queer ‘soft landings’ in contemporary South Africa
The volume foregrounds the diverse ways queer subjects navigate shifting political, cultural, spiritual, and economic landscapes in Southern Africa. Drawing on queer theory, decolonial thought, feminist critique, and indigenous knowledge systems, the book uncovers the complex relationships between queerness, temporality, kinship, spirituality, labour, mobility, and survival. It explores issues as varied as ancestral callings, queer kinship structures, spiritual practices, digital intimacies, the politics of public sex, economic precarity, migration, and communal care, demonstrating how queer communities across the region continue to remake social worlds despite ongoing structural violence, exclusion, and moral regulation.
mpho ndaba
Interdisciplinary scholar, brand narrative strategist, writer, and producer working across music, film, art, and research. mpho's scholarly practice, rooted in the black intellectual traditions, draws from Black Studies, Critical Queer Studies, Migration Studies, Animal Studies, Sound, and Management and Organisational Studies. He writes on race, art, nature, queer subjectivity, and the environment.
