Queer Southern African Imaginaries

Web-Based Resources

HOLAA! 
https://holaafrica.org/
 
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HOLAAfrica (HOLAA!) is a Pan-Africanist digital platform that focuses sex and sexuality on the continent through archiving stories, knowledge production & edutainment, digital community building & creating spaces that deal with safe sex & pleasure & other aspects of the politics and presence of sexuality."

AfroQueer Podcast 
https://afroqueerpodcast.com/
(also available on podcast platforms) 

"AfroQueer is a podcast from AQ Studios telling the stories of Queer Africans from across the continent and diaspora. Our podcast celebrates queer love, and explores the laws affecting our lives, migration, media, race, class, censorship, family and sex (obviously). Along the way, we also share some bitter truths of what it means to be Queer and African, but also spotlight individuals shifting the landscape of African queerness."

GALA archive at Wits University 
https://gala.co.za/

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Founded in 1997 as an archive, the GALA Queer Archive (GALA) is a catalyst for the production, preservation and dissemination of information about the history, culture and contemporary experiences of LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer) people in South Africa. GALA was established as a response to the continued erasure and omission of LGBTIQ history from official museums and archives, even in the wave of new histories and heritage being celebrated and emphasised in post-apartheid 1990s South Africa."

Purple Hand Africa
https://unbiasthenews.org/queer-zimbabweans-use-social-media-as-resistance/

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Purple Hand... is just one of the new social media initiatives by queer Zimbabweans that enable them to tell and own their stories, a form of digital activism against the prejudiced reporting of modern-day Examiners."

Minority Africa Magazine 
https://minorityafrica.org/category/sexual-minorities/

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Minority Africa is a digital publication using data-driven multimedia journalism to tell minority stories from across Africa. We cover women, sexual, gender, ethnic, and religious minorities,  persons with disabilities, migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, through a solutions journalism lens."

Inkanyiso 
https://inkanyiso.org/author/inkanyiso2009/

"Inkanyiso was conceptualized by the visual activist, Prof. Sir Zanele Muholi in 2006. The first thing that every reader should think of when entering this platform is Queer Activism = Queer Media. A flexible and unique source of information for art advocacy... It was in response to the lack of visual histories and skills training produced by and for LGBTI persons, especially artists (in the form of photography, film, visual arts and multi media)"