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Black like me? Gay hairstyling and the paradox of modernity in South Africa Dissertation : The starting point for this research project is hairstyling and "hair saloons". Hairstyles are an important marker of cultural identity and hair saloons frequently provide safe social spaces for gay men as well as a significant point of interaction with broader communities. Hair saloons are thus sites where same-sex identities can be developed and expressed as well as negotiated with the outside world.
In the South African public imaginary, gay lifestyles are associated with "modernity", a term which has both negative and positive connotations. This is particularly apparent in the ambiguous response to hairstylists, as a source of what is both desirable and regrettable about "modernity". This research will explore the articulation between "modernity" and contemporary same-sex identities in South Africa. The nature of rural and urban, traditional and modern, will be explored through a network of stylists and their associates who live and work outside of the metropole, in the urban peripheries, small towns and rural areas of South Africa's Mpumalanga province.
Currier, Ashley McAllister I engaged in intensive, continuous ethnographic observation of four Namibian and South African LGBT social movement organizations for approximately hours and analyzed my ethnographic fieldnotes. South African Gay and Lesbian Pride formerly Lesbian and Gay Pride - a more inclusive and less marginalizing title is now firmly following the model set by Prides worldwide It is a far cry from the foundation of the Pride phenomenon in South Africa, now in its 14th year. There was a time - and Yusoof Abdullah, co-organiser of the Pride event this year is keen to remind people of his connection to those initial Pride marches - when Pride meant something Well there is a good reason why some political sentiments need to be injected back into the Pride event - our most public expression of pride in ourselves and our community.
Just because it says so in the constitution doesn't mean that people don't discriminate against lesbian and gay people and that homophobia is not still rife in South Africa Few lesbian or gay people in the world have not heard of Matthew Shepard; a victim of a violent and brutal homophobic attack that led to his death hanging from a fence in the USA. But we have our own Matthew Shepards - we are just less willing to learn their names and honour their suffering with action I have never missed a year. I even helped to organise one in South Africa in My commitment to the need for Pride and its meaning is total - so why was this the first year of my adult life that I couldn't march?
Am I getting old? And why should that be such a sin in the gay world? No, none of this, I just could not find anything there to be proud of. Data was derived from an ethnographic study, used as the appropriate methodology because of the veiled and secret nature of same-sexuality amongst traditional healers Sangomas construction of identity and desire shifted between that of personal agency and that of a dominant male ancestor. This required constant negotiation and encompassed elements of both the 'modern' and 'traditional'. In the case of these sangomas, same-sexuality the basis of marginality assumes a social status and becomes a source of power.
Un Imagined Bodies and Identities : I come from South Africa, a country that suffers in its postcolonial phase, like all other African countries do, from the past and present afflictions of European colonization and American imperialism that has including a white minority regime until Like all imperialist and other formerly colonized countries, South Africa is also still embedded within European heteropatriarchal values and queerphobia. I would also like to preface this paper with the argument that theorizing about the lack of queer content in the MA Documentary Media program is about more than a silence about queer sexuality.
It is about a racialized heteronormativity as it is reproduced within Canadian academia and the larger Canadian mainstream society Arnott J, Crago A-L Sonnekus, Theo Invisible Queers: Investigating the 'other' Other in gay visual cultures. Master or Arts Dissertation, University of Pretoria. The disclosure of racist and selectively homophobic ideologies, which seem to inform gay visual representation, is therefore the chief concern of the dissertation..
Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in South African Society Transgender man: A female-born person who identifies as male and often in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, in eastern South Africa. Nontle, 34, grew up dating boys, but since , when she had a child, has dated women. 5. CrossRef citations to date. 0. Altmetric. Listen. Original Articles. 'He uses my body': female traditional healers, male ancestors and transgender in South Africa Stobie English Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in the case of Nkabinde, a sangoma, or traditional healer in South Africa.
Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto : Although engaged in another research project, in my free time with friends like Paul, I thus stumbled onto a series of questions that began to perplex me: Who was Linda? In the letter quoted above, I had unproblematically identified Linda as "gay. And if so, how did he come to see himself as so? And I quickly confronted questions of gender as well.
Did Linda consider himself as male? And if so, had he always done so? As issues like these began to pose themselves, I soon realized that for black men in townships around Johannesburg, identifying as gay was both recent and tied up, in unexpectedly complex ways, with a much larger historical transformation: the end of apartheid and the creation of a modem nation; in a phrase, the "freeing" of South Africa Certainly, in Soweto in the s, hostels populated by rural men had become notorious sites for same-sex sexual relations.
Township parents warned young sons not to go anywhere nearby, that they would be swept inside and smeared with Vaseline and raped see also Mathabane To urbanraised skesanas like Linda, however, these stories apparently only aroused phantasy and desire. Linda described a "marriage ceremony" in which she took part in one of the hostels, as follows Coetzee, Catherine Anne The development and evaluation of a programme to promote sensitive pscyhotherapeutic practice with gay men and lesbians.
PhD Dissertation, Rhodes University. Abstract and Download Page. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are one such group that professional psychology — both in South Africa and abroad - has identified as having unique treatment needs for which psychologists require specialised knowledge and skills in order to render appropriate treatment.
Competence to treat non-heterosexual patients has been framed in terms of a gay affirmative paradigm which has as its basic tenet the recognition that same-gender orientation is not pathological but rather a healthy alternative to heterosexuality. To implement a gay affirmative approach in practice, practitioners must have resolved their possible prejudice and heterosexist bias and have the requisite knowledge of concerns unique to lesbian, gay, and bisexual LGB individuals to be able to apply their skills in a culturally sensitive manner.
Uit in die kuberruim: enkele waardetoevoegings en uitdagings ten opsigte van Gay Litnet binne Suid-Afrikaanse konteks : This article investigates the nature, role and contribution of Gay Litnet as an electronic alternative for the publication of gay literature in South Africa.
Attention will be given to the manner in which Gay Litnet acts as a public forum for nurturing gay identity within the current socio-political context of South Africa. A brief summary of the current socio-political situation of South African gays will be given in order to place the discussion into the necessary context. Secondly, an evaluative description of the dynamics of Gay Litnet will be given, where after a few value-adding properties and challenges concerning Gay Litnet will be discussed.
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University of Jahannesburg. Mbali, Mandisa However, the post-apartheid era brought much greater scope for AIDS activism as it brought with it a free press and the Constitutional Court, which were used to maximum potential by TAC activists, especially in advocating HIV treatment access for all, as the second and third sections of this Report argue. Reddy, Vasu Moffies, stabanis and lesbos: the political construction of queer identities in southern Africa. This dissertation focuses on discursive constructions of sexuality in particular homosexuality.
This study is not a social history, nor does it explain and motivate the existence of homosexuality. Rather, the project explores the regulatory public discourses of homosexuality in Southern Africa in relation to historical events and archived texts. Southern embraces primarily South Africa although one chapter foregrounds neighbouring African countries in the Southern region.
Applying recent studies in queer theory to a number of events, issues and sources, I formulate a critical methodology that demonstrates the political construction of homosexuality. I argue that the emergence of political queer identity has its roots in the apartheid State, and show how these identities are politically grounded and indeed reinforced In the post-apartheid project. The study conceives homosexuality as a 'queer identity' that resists and subverts heteronormativity.
Rees, Jennifer Masculinity and sexuality in South African border war literature. Master's Dissertation, University of Stellenbosch. Human rights abuses of gays and lesbians in the South African Defence Force by health workers during the apartheid era.
Forman, Ross G Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11 4 : Because the economic center of South Africa had shifted from the Cape Province to the Transvaal as a result of the development of the mines, the country was heavily indebted to these workers from Mozambique, who in comprised about 70 percent of the labor force officially hired by the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association WNLA and numbered more than seventy thousand Their inquiry was prompted by and followed on the heels of an explosive investigation of "immorality" among the indentured Chinese laborers brought to the Transvaal after the conclusion of the Anglo- Boer War, for the earlier investigators had heard repeated testimony that the "Mozambique Natives" could teach the Chinese inore vice than the Chinese could teach them For instance, although a number of "boys" - interviewed were named by other witnesses as being party to mine marriages, nearly all claimed linowledge of the practice but categorically denied their ou7n involvement in it We will document the findings and place them in the context of the existing, but marginal research.
What kind of myths and stereotypes are prevalent around homosexuality in African societies and especially in South Africa? To understand these myths we will documen the history of same-sex relationships in differen African societies Ratele, Kopano Ruling masculinity and sexuality.
In fact, the fact that you have worked with another therapist about it will count in your favour. For instance, although a number of "boys" - interviewed were named by other witnesses as being party to mine marriages, nearly all claimed linowledge of the practice but categorically denied their ou7n involvement in it The counselor said they wanted to ask me two questions. Both sets were soon repainted in the dignified and distinctive Indian Red and Cream livery of the Orange Express that became the standard for several years to come. I would fight with them, sometimes physically.
Feminist Africa, 6: Full Text. In a recent study on masculinity focusing on boys from several high schools around the Western Cape, similar thinking was evident. Therefore a woman is not allowed to [be equal to] her husband when it comes to household decision-making. Theuninck AC Master's Dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Archive Link - Highlights: "In the present S.
The majority of the sample were from 15 to 34 years of age The majority were white This is perhaps not surprising since loathing oneself because of one's sexuality, and seeing that sexuality as perverse, would be expected to be closely related to a severe self-hate that could lead to suicide.
Having witnessed people being victimised for being gay was the next strongest factor related to suicidal tendencies. Wells H, Polders l The youngest age at which suicide was attempted was 13 years. No significant differences were found between age groups for attempted suicide. Suicide attempts showed similar rates for men and women. Can we Talk about Suicide in Africa? The practice of autopsies after a sudden death is not a systematic medical practice in Africa, except for some legal reasons. People do take their own life and we need to talk about depression and suicide in the society in general and in the LGBTQI communities in particular.
Among other issues, the lack of supportive, positive social structures that allow different gender expression contribute to make LGBTQI youth very vulnerable to depression and suicide attempts. But it does not have to be this way. Can we start by talking about suicide. We should not be ashamed to admit that we are going through depression. We should train and enable queer youth to assist their peers who are dealing with traumatic experiences Belkin A, Canaday M The evidence suggests that the integration of gay and lesbian personnel has not had a negative impact on recruitment and retention, morale, unit cohesion or operational effectiveness in the SANDF.