'Queer Africa' & 'Queer African Reader': celebración LGBTQ del añorado continente

Dos importantes publicaciones sobre la comunidad LGBTQ acaban de ver su nacimiento en África: Queer Africa. New and Collected Fiction (Mayo 2013) y Queer African Reader (Abril, 2013). La noticia es todo un logro, dado que aún muchísimos países del continente añorado todavía permanecen en el total oscurantismo sexodiverso.

 

 

Cuando visité Ghana en mayo de este año, pude percatarme de lo que era verdaderamente temer por la vida debido a tu decisión sexual. Así que estos dos libros que ya forman parte de mi colección (uno ya está en mis manos, y el otro viene en camino) son ambos razones suficientes para celebrar la esperanza.

Más información sobre las publicaciones aquí:

Queer African Reader
Sokari Ekine (Editor), Hakima Abbas (Editor)

As homophobia and transphobia threaten to silence the voices of African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people, this account is a testament to the resistance and unrelenting power of these communities across Africa and its diaspora. It brings together academic writings, political analysis, life testimonies, conversations, and artistic works by Africans that engage with the struggle for LGBTI liberation. The book aims to engage the audience from the perspective that various traits of identity—such as gender, race, and class—interact to contribute to social inequality. Including experiences from diverse African contexts, this work breaks away from the homogenization of Africa as the homophobic continent to highlight the complexities of LGBTI lives and experiences through their own voices.

 

 

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http://www.amazon.com/Queer-African-Reader-Sokari-Ekine/dp/0857490990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373033820&sr=8-1&keywords=Queer+Africa

Queer Africa. New and Collected Fiction

by Karen Martin (Editor) , Makhosazana Xaba (Editor)

Queer Africa is a collection of unapologetic, tangled, tender, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love each other on the continent - In these unafraid stories of intimacy, sweat, betrayal and restless confidences, we accompany characters into cafes, tattoo salons, the barest of bedrooms, coldly gleaming spaces into which the rich withdraw, unlit streets, and their own deepest interiors

 

http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Africa-New-Collected-Fiction/dp/1920590331/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1373033820&sr=8-2&keywords=Queer+Africa

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