"Born out of comradery-collaboration that developed online, this co-authored book by two seasoned scholars, Ncube and Sibanda, offers fascinating insight into the importance of digital spaces for African queer world- and community-making. Without romanticizing the digital space as a site of agency, liberation, and freedom, the authors skillfully elucidate how queer and trans people in Southern Africa navigate, negotiate, and appropriate online platforms boldly and creatively in a quest for self-representation and self-fashioning. Doing so, this book foregrounds digital worlds as crucial to imagining and shaping queer African futures." -- Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds, UK " Southern African Queer and Trans Visualities in Digital Landscapes is a remarkable work, turning queer and trans curiosity into a method: life-giving, affirming, and defiantly joyful across borders. In capturing the wit and imagination of Southern African queer and trans communities, Sibanda and Ncube give us scholarship that is as bold as the worlds it documents. This tantalizing work of African queer and trans worldmaking is alive with digital and queer languages, vitality, and audacious refusal. A must read for the curiously queer and queerly curious!" -- zethu Matebeni, Independent Scholar "This exciting book is not just about stories of woes but also of hope, joy, affirmation, and resilience. Sibanda and Ncube built this book on many voices and many stories (i.

e. content creators) who crisscross digital platforms and physical spaces. Through this examination, the book highlights the regional, continental, and diasporic voices speaking back to and centering around the African continent. The authors demonstrate that the African queer/trans body is central to our understanding of contemporary African body politics and the history of the digital present, as mediated by capitalist tools. This is a must-read for scholars, students, journalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium trans communities, Sibanda and Ncube give us scholarship that is as bold as the worlds it documents. This tantalizing work of African queer and trans worldmaking is alive with digital and queer languages, vitality, and audacious refusal. A must read for the curiously queer and queerly curious!" -- zethu Matebeni, Independent Scholar "This exciting book is not just about stories of woes but also of hope, joy, affirmation, and resilience.

Sibanda and Ncube built this book on many voices and many stories (i.e. content creators) who crisscross digital platforms and physical spaces. Through this examination, the book highlights the regional, continental, and diasporic voices speaking back to and centering around the African continent. The authors demonstrate that the African queer/trans body is central to our understanding of contemporary African body politics and the history of the digital present, as mediated by capitalist tools. This is a must-read for scholars, students, journalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium nalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium trans communities, Sibanda and Ncube give us scholarship that is as bold as the worlds it documents.

This tantalizing work of African queer and trans worldmaking is alive with digital and queer languages, vitality, and audacious refusal. A must read for the curiously queer and queerly curious!" -- zethu Matebeni, Independent Scholar "This exciting book is not just about stories of woes but also of hope, joy, affirmation, and resilience. Sibanda and Ncube built this book on many voices and many stories (i.e. content creators) who crisscross digital platforms and physical spaces. Through this examination, the book highlights the regional, continental, and diasporic voices speaking back to and centering around the African continent. The authors demonstrate that the African queer/trans body is central to our understanding of contemporary African body politics and the history of the digital present, as mediated by capitalist tools. This is a must-read for scholars, students, journalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa.

" -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium trans communities, Sibanda and Ncube give us scholarship that is as bold as the worlds it documents. This tantalizing work of African queer and trans worldmaking is alive with digital and queer languages, vitality, and audacious refusal. A must read for the curiously queer and queerly curious!" -- zethu Matebeni, Independent Scholar "This exciting book is not just about stories of woes but also of hope, joy, affirmation, and resilience. Sibanda and Ncube built this book on many voices and many stories (i.e. content creators) who crisscross digital platforms and physical spaces. Through this examination, the book highlights the regional, continental, and diasporic voices speaking back to and centering around the African continent. The authors demonstrate that the African queer/trans body is central to our understanding of contemporary African body politics and the history of the digital present, as mediated by capitalist tools.

This is a must-read for scholars, students, journalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium nalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium nalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium trans communities, Sibanda and Ncube give us scholarship that is as bold as the worlds it documents. This tantalizing work of African queer and trans worldmaking is alive with digital and queer languages, vitality, and audacious refusal. A must read for the curiously queer and queerly curious!" -- zethu Matebeni, Independent Scholar "This exciting book is not just about stories of woes but also of hope, joy, affirmation, and resilience. Sibanda and Ncube built this book on many voices and many stories (i.e.

content creators) who crisscross digital platforms and physical spaces. Through this examination, the book highlights the regional, continental, and diasporic voices speaking back to and centering around the African continent. The authors demonstrate that the African queer/trans body is central to our understanding of contemporary African body politics and the history of the digital present, as mediated by capitalist tools. This is a must-read for scholars, students, journalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium nalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium . The authors demonstrate that the African queer/trans body is central to our understanding of contemporary African body politics and the history of the digital present, as mediated by capitalist tools. This is a must-read for scholars, students, journalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa.

" -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium nalists, and anyone interested in African body politics, and the role of queer/trans African content creators in challenging what we think we know about Africa." -- Shola Adenekan, Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University, Belgium.