Bc humans are uniformly great at reading about a complex idea and instantly understanding it. It's not like we teach by talking with students about the reading and what they think about it in a range of engaging ways to help them to not only get it but contextualize, critique, and apply it. Nope.

they did express anger: www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/u...

Today, farmers in Gezira are organizing a "We Must Plant" campaign that supplies families with food in a country where 30 million are food insecure and also helps assure them access to their land, preventing dispossession. Support them through Sudan Solidarity Campaign: www.sudansolidarity.com

wish I could offer some real help Kerry; but sending love!

I'm proposing something similar, "how to become a reader," and I would be really curious to see how you're structuring it. If you'd be willing to compare syllabi at some point, please DM me!

Patel argues for a “queer jurisprudence” informed by the flexibility of “living customary law”—as opposed to either the postcolonial legal system or “official customary law.” In this framework, the practice of tradition becomes a space for people like Tiwonge to forge different futures.

he much-publicized 2009 prosecution of Tiwonge Chimbalanga Kachepa and Steven Monjeza Soko following their traditional marriage ceremony, or chinkhoswe, which was interpreted as a “gay marriage” even though Tiwonge identifies as a woman and was accepted as such in her community.

The winner of this year’s prize for best published essay by a graduate student was Nigel Timothy Mpemba Patel, for “A Queer Chinkhoswe: Re-Imagining the Customary in Malawi” in Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South, eds. G.B. Radics and P. Ciocchini. Patel takes up...

...through which women worked together to gain independence, respect, and livelihoods in the worlds of fashion, music, and broadcasting. The essay is an exemplary model of how to combine women’s history and feminist analysis with an attention to the presence of transgender women.

Charlotte Grabli won Honorable Mention for “Elegant Incursions: Fashion, Music, and Gender Dissidence in 1950s Brazzaville and Kinshasa” in the Journal of Women’s History. The essay, itself an elegant incursion, offers a fascinating account of urban women’s associations in the Congo in the 1950s.

make queer bodies convincing characters in the most dystopian dramas about the future.” He uses work on witchcraft and modernity in Africa to explore how “sexual deviance in the body of the gay man” becomes a figure for conflicts over sovereignty and corruption in postcolonial neoliberalism.

her emphasis is on queer joy and ingenuity. Raidoo acutely analyzes the contemporary emergence of discourses of homophobia in Sierra Leone, where the state has remained relatively silent on the issue, through an anthropological lens--or as he compellingly phrases it, "the cultural forces that...