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Virtual Book Launch of East African Queer & Trans Displacements Join us for the online launch of East African Queer and Trans Displacements, a new open access edited collection published by Bloomsbury

Excited to be launching East African Queer + Trans Displacements (Bloomsbury) with incredible contributors.
📅2 March, 15:00 (UK)| 💻 Online
Open Access from 25 Feb 🎉
A chance to celebrate collective labour & reflect on what a regional lens brings to queer/trans displacement
Reg: tinyurl.com/wyx6z9h4

🎉 Big news! Our new collection, East African Queer and Trans Displacements, is out Open Access 5 Feb. Bringing together diverse case studies + interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection offers the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. tinyurl.com/4fz2rk5v

Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable 'Transgenderness' In recent years, autobiographical narratives by transgender migrants and refugees from Africa have emerged, such as Farah Abdi’s Never Arrive, Neo Sandja’s Right Mind, Wrong Body, and Rizi Xavier Tima...

Out today with @iciberlinpress.bsky.social in Breaking & Making Models: my chapter ‘Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives & a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’. I explore African trans asylum memoirs & the ‘unsafe return’ in the trans travel narrative. Open access: tinyurl.com/36fmacec

In Kalamazoo for ‘Resisting Harm, Building the Future’, hosted by the Arcus Centre for Social Justice Leadership. Going to be talking about what nearly 20 years of the ‘Proudly African + Transgender’ portraits has offered the world 🏳️‍⚧️

Yeaaahh!!! Wonderful Alex!

Save the date! 📅 On April 3rd, I’ll be talking (also, let’s be real—fangirling) with an amazing group of scholars. Can’t wait! ✨

Picture of the main campus of the LMU Munich with students sitting on the grass and talking

Sociologists working on inequality:

Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)

EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

Wonderful panel discussing our edited collection Queer + Trans African Mobilities at the African Studies Assoc Conference. Gratitude for Naminata Diabate, Ola Yacob-Haliso, Z'étoile Imma & Brenna Munro and the Queer African Studies Association

A great way to end the semester. Presented what will hopefully be the intro to my forthcoming monograph at SOAS Gender yesterday. Had the best time! Grateful for generosity in environments that want us to operate from a space of scarcity!

It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org