Reading the Polis through Literary Aesthetics – Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism

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1 In the first sense, I use the concept of ‘feminised bodies’ as used and explained by Kumalo and Gama (2018:17) when they maintain that this concept denotes “women, queer, transsexual and gender non-conformist bodies, which as per Moffett’s (2006) suggestion are ‘reminded’ of their place in society through violences such as curative rape”. In the second sense, my negotiation needs to be understood in light of what it underscores; the constant need to perform my masculinity in ways that protect and secure my being – in the category of citizen. This is to say that I acknowledge and trouble how being queer, in a number of African contexts, always most certainly, ensures erasures that are premised on violent masculinities that are socially sanctioned, as argued by Abisola Balogun and Paul Bissell in chapter 6 of the book.

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Siseko H Kumalo

SISEKO H KUMALO holds a Master of Arts (Cum Laude) in Political Philosophy from the University of Pretoria. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decolonising Disciplines, a journal dedicated to decolonising disciplinary knowledge across faculties in higher education. His research focuses on epistemic justice, pedagogies of mutual (in)fallibility, feminist and queer theory, violence, Education for Sustainable Development and higher education transformation. Siseko serves on the Literary Association of South Africa’s Executive Committee and is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar (2017). Email: [email protected]