Wits HGC

Official Account for the Wits Humanities Graduate Centre. Room 10 South West Engineering Building, East Campus.

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Dear Friends,

The Humanities Graduate Centre invites to the 3rd Annual Towards Critical Apartheid Studies conference titled Apartheid after South Africa: Legacies, Logics, and New Frontiers. We look forward to seeing you!

To RSVP, please see the link https://t.co/6FuVrecVT3

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Find out more and follow updates here: https://t.co/HQwOfWSvcl.

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This forthcoming volume promises to make an important contribution to conversations on queer lives, bodies, temporalities, and belonging in Southern Africa. We are thrilled to see the project reaching this stage and look forward to its official publication.

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We are excited to share that Queer Southern Africa: Temporalities, Bodies and Belonging is now available for pre-ordering ahead of publication on Routledge's website.

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CFP: 4th Annual Conference on Queerness in the Global South

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Thank you for such an offering, you truly gave us a compelling and thought provoking presentation.

[ray🪄 @arrerayy]

Extremely humbled, grateful and happy to share that I presented my work today at @WitsHgc 's 3rd Annual Conference on Queerness in the Global South: Archives, Aesthetics and Futurities.

Thank you to everyone for making this happen for me, for believing in me and my work. (1/n)

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An incisive exploration of how African queer sexualities are represented, which challenges dominant narratives and shifting from sensationalized portrayals to nuanced, everyday experiences of desire and intimacy.

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Sarah Fletcher presenting Africanising Queer Erotics and Queering African Erotics: From Spectacular to Ordinary Representations.

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An evocative journey into the spiritual, social, and ordinary practices that shape Hijra identities and sacred belonging in contemporary India.

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Ray Rudra offers a compelling and brilliant presentation "Day-Evening, Morning-Night, People Keep Coming and We Keep Doing Taails!”: Exploring Hijra Life-Worlds at the Bahucharaji Temple in Gujarat, India.

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A powerful exploration of kinship, love, and resistance, reimagining African histories through the lens of lesbian family-making and relational belonging.

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Shinta Jennifer Ayebazibwe delivers a brilliant presentation, Situating Lesbian Family-Making in African History Through the Experiences of Lesbian Families and Woman-to-Woman Relationships in Gauteng, South Africa.

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A rich and engaging QandA dialogue on queerness, education, and the transformative potential of reimagining identity and history in South African schools. Prof Ngidi, Prof Maluleka, and Hlela.

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A thought-provoking exploration of how reimagining historical narratives can foster more inclusive and affirming futures for queer identities in education.

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Day 2: Paul Maluleka presenting Inclusive Pasts and Inclusive Futures: Towards a Queerised Past in the School History Curriculum in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

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An insightful discussion on how hair, identity, and queerness intersect as acts of resistance and self-expression.

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Day Two: Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi and Sithandiwe Bhengu presenting Fading the Norm: Queer Aesthetics, Black Girlhood, and the Fade Haircut as Political Defiance in a South African School.

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Day Two: Look who is here, Professor Ngidi