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Zethu Matebeni (eds.)

A collection of essays and images, Scholarly archival and critical work.

Reclaiming Afrikan: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities is a collaboration and collection of art, photography and critical essays interrogating the meanings and everyday practices of queer life in Africa today. In Reclaiming Afrikan authors, activists and artists from Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and South Africa offer fresh perspectives on queer life; how gender and sexuality can be understood in Africa as ways of reclaiming identities in the continent. Africa is known to be harsh towards people with non-conforming genders and sexual identities. It is within this framework that Reclaiming Afrikan exists to respond to such violations and to offer alternative ways of thinking and being in the continent. The book appropriates “Afrika” and “queer” to affirm sexual identities that are ordinarily shamed and violated by prejudice and hatred. The use of “k” in Afrika signals an appropriation of an identity and belonging that is always detached from a “queer” person. “Queer” in this book is understood as an inquiry into the present, as a critical space that pushes the boundaries of what is embraced as normative. The artists and authors included in this text are “queer” themselves and occupy spaces that speak back to hegemony. For many, this position challenges various norms on gender, sexuality, and existence and offers a subversive way of being.

Sokari Ekine, Hakima Abbas (Eds.)

As increasing homophobia and transphobia across Africa threatens to silence the voices of African Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people, the Queer African Reader brings together a collection of writings, analysis and artistic works that engage with the struggle for LGBTI liberation and inform sexual orientation and gender variance.

The book aims to engage a primarily African audience and focuses on intersectionality while including experiences from a variety of contexts including rural communities, from exile, from conflict and post-conflict situations as well as diverse religious and cultural contexts. Contributions from across the continent explore issues such as identity, tactics for activism, international solidarity, homophobia and global politics, intersections with the broader social justice movement in Africa, the feminist movement and LGBTI rights, religion and culture, reconciling the personal with the political.

Campaña Estatal por el Cierre de los CIE
112 páginas, ed. Cambalache, 2014

Cada año, el Estado español fleta más de cien vuelos de deportación para la expulsión de miles de personas migrantes. Las compañías aéreas Air Europa y Swift Air han firmado con el Ministerio del Interior un contrato de 24 millones de euros para la realización de los vuelos de deportación entre los años 2013 y 2015. La Campaña Estatal por el Cierre de los CIE y otros colectivos contra las fronteras hacemos un llamamiento al boicot a estas dos compañías aéreas y a todo el grupo empresarial Globalia, al que pertenece Air Europa.

Nos negamos a naturalizar los vuelos de deportación, nos negamos a que formen parte de nuestra normalidad. La lucha por evitar que dispositivos represivos tan atroces se conviertan en normales va mucho más allá de la política de extranjería. Frente a un universo de relaciones económicas, sociales y políticas que permite encontrarle un lugar –aunque oscuro y tenebroso– a los Centros de Internamiento y a los vuelos de deportación; frente a una realidad sociopolítica en la que se han hecho posibles, a la luz del día, las redadas racistas y las alambradas, debemos construir las condiciones para que cada uno de estos actos –y con cada uno de ellos el conjunto de la política migratoria– sean, directamente, inimaginables.