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B Camminga
@obsqueer.bsky.social
📚Transgender Refugees (Palgrave) & Queer & Trans African Mobilities (ZED) East African Queer & Trans Displacement (2024 Bloomsbury) 📚•Fellow @iciberlin & Research Assoc @ACMSWits • Co-founder @ALMN_research • 🏳️‍⚧️ (They|She) 🏳️‍⚧️ www.bcamminga.com
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
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...
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May 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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 🏳️‍⚧️
March 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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! ✨
January 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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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
January 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
December 13, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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!
November 29, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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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
Anti-Colonial Research Library
Welcome to the Anti-Colonial Research Library This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube…
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September 25, 2023 at 8:12 AM