Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women

@article{Musangi2018HomingWM,
  title={Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women},
  author={Neo Sinoxolo Musangi},
  journal={Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism},
  year={2018},
  volume={17},
  pages={401 - 414}
}
Abstract:Recent activist and academic work regarding same-gender marriage and relationships has brought to the fore supposed precolonial archives that seem to suggest that something we might call homophobia is as colonial in Africa as is the notion of the nation-state. While this archival work might be important in creating space for African queers, it fails to engage fully with what it might mean to be both African and queer, in the here and now. So what, if there were no ancestral queers… 
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