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Inaugural Renberg Chair. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting & Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow. Traveling the world writing on Palestine, HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ life. Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS. Finishing THE OVERSEER CLASS (Amistad/HarperCollins)
A very touching carving I saw scratched into the wall of a solitary confinement cell in an apartheid prison
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“The author of The Viral Underclass explores the Faustian bargain members of marginalized groups must strike when selected for positions of power.” Honored to be named alongside @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @gabrielshelnutt.bsky.social & sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Some news: The first advanced review is in and…THE OVERSEER CLASS has been named one of the Top 10 Politics & Current Events Books of Spring 2026 by Publishers Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Drying
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Bleach
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I was going to make an Alice Wong shirt, but will save this stencil for a jacket better for spray painting…
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Greetings from Joburg’s Constitution Hill, where I’ve come “home” to the Creative Art Making Project (Camp). Today’s theme is “revival” and our medium is textiles…
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Best comment on Barber’s cover thus far 😂
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins

THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto

by Steven W. Thrasher

cover art by Jamaal Barber

Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In today’s video, I breakdown 3 reasons why U.S. foreign spending on HIV is not “aid” or an”gift”
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I made a short film called “The Global Terror of Homeless Sweeps,” about my surprise discovery that while I was in Uganda, the G20 had enacted major sweeps in the Joburg neighborhood I’ve called home off-and-on since September ( w shoutouts to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social @samtlevin.bsky.social)
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
5/ And in the concluding Part 5, I explain as we leave the shelter how and why trans residents behave like spies, switching between modes of transit 2 or 3 times to get to work (which can take 2 hours each way)

www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
4/ In Part 4, a shelter manager (who also was once kicked out of home) tearfully says that they’re running out of hope: they owe 2 months back rent, they have no food for the residents & when they ask private donors for help, they say Trump won’t let them help

www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
3/ In Part 3, a shelter manager tells me that the United States, Netherlands, UK *and private donors* are forbidding these terms:

🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)

🛑 Trans

🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)

www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
2/ In Part 2, I speak to John Grace of the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium about coming up in queer shelters themself and their hope for what a queer shelter might be (yes, that’s a pig being slaughtered by a neighbor you’re hearing in the background)

gofundme.com/minorityshelters
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.

In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.

(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
…and always WILL be here
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Queer Africans have always been here…
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A fascinating exhibit of art made in British “concentration camps” of 1899, a term almost never used prior to Nazi Germany in the west
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Finally made it to the Museum of Africa
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM