WEEK ONE: “Queer” “Southern African” “Imaginaries”

Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. E-book, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb06472.0001.001. 

Marc Epprecht. Selections from Hungochani : The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db=e025xna&AN=404311&site=ehost-live&scope=site.   

WEEK TWO: Popular Culture 

Pauline Mateveke. Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 34:1, 32-47. February 3, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2021.2020086 

Lindsey Green-Sims, Queer African Cinemas (February 4, 2022)

WEEK THREE: Lesbian Intimacies 

Zanele Muholi. Being and Faces and Phases

Kudzanai Violet-Hwami “Hosana! Hosana!” “Newtown”
http://www.tyburngallery.com/artist/kudzanai-violet-hwami/ 
https://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/240-kudzanai-violet-hwami/

WEEK FOUR: Exhibitions 

Masiyaleti Mbewe, The Afrofuturist Village
https://www.masiyaleti.com/architecture-gallery#10

Paul Wilson; The Afrofuturist Village: Masiyaleti Mbewe. African Arts 2019; 52 (3): 83–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00487

Sem Sombras virtual exhibition and curatorial tour
https://apexart.org/alheri-policarpo.php

Kewpie: Daughter of District Six (see also interview with archivist) 
https://gala.co.za/projects-and-programmes/a-daughter-of-district-six/ 
https://www.districtsix.co.za/project/kewpie-daughter-of-district-six/

WEEK FIVE: (On) Archives 

Look through Readex (colonial sodomy laws, tried cases) 
https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/welcome?p=ARDX

Archives of the Intimate oral history project hosted by GALA queer archive at Wits University.
https://gala.co.za/projects-and-programmes/archives-of-the-intimate/

Migraine-George, Thérèse, and Ashley Currier. “Querying Queer African Archives: Methods and Movements.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3/4, 2016, pp. 190–207. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44474069. Accessed 31 Mar. 2023.

Epprecht, Marc. “The Gay Oral History Project in Zimbabwe: Black Empowerment, Human Rights, and the Research Process.” History in Africa, vol. 26, 1999, pp. 25–41. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3172136. 

WEEK SIX: Diaspora 

Smalls, James. "The Visual Life of Black Queer Diaspora" Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 65, no. 2, 2017, pp. 187-202. June 21, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2017-0020 

Kudzanai Violet-Hwami: “Ain’t Leaving this Country,” “http://www.tyburngallery.com/artist/kudzanai-violet-hwami/ 

WEEK SEVEN: Queering Kinship  

Taylor-Seymour, R. (2022). Intimate rites: Remaking ancestors and queerness in zimbabwe (Order No. 28720603). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2719383426). Retrieved from http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/intimate-rites-remaking-ancestors-queerness/docview/2719383426/se-2

WEEK EIGHT: Vagaries of the Digital 

The Jacaranda Queen Contest - gayZim blog
https://www.angelfire.com/zine/gayzim/queens/jq.html

Behind the Mask web archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20120608080413/http://www.mask.org.za/