Intersectional citizenship, violence, and lesbian resistance in South Africa

Moreau, Julie

doi:10.1080/07393148.2015.1089026

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“…Additionally, the discourse of “us and them” is linked to the intersections of race and culture. Social and cultural isolation and alienation are argued to be closely interwoven with the discourse and subjective experiences of belonging and citizenship in South Africa (Mkhize et al, 2010; Moreau, 2015). Another participant, Zonke, pointed out further that cultural and class intersections are also shaped by the respective histories of black oppression and white privilege:As much work as I’ve done in terms of coming to terms with my sexuality and my identity, it’s just sort of very hard being so removed from people who understand what it means to be an African woman who identifies as a lesbian.…”

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Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Stephens

Boonzaier

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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Current conceptualisations of citizenship in South Africa are embedded in the egalitarian discourse of the Constitution, lauded for its recognition of historically marginalised groups, including sexually and gender diverse people. Within the paradox of progressive legal advancements and the legacy of colonialism and apartheid, we use a decolonial feminist lens to critically engage with the notion of citizenship for black lesbian women in contemporary South Africa. We adopt a social-psychological perspective of citizenship as an active practice, embedded within the dynamic intersections of historical, structural and discursive patterns of power-knowledge relations in everyday life. We draw from five focus group discussions that were part of a study that explored the intersections of identity, power and violence in the lives of black lesbian women in South Africa. Focusing on the enactments of citizenship in public spaces, we contend that black lesbian women’s lived experiences of citizenship point to the enduring manifestations of the coloniality of power, in which the centrality of race underpins the intersections of class, gender and sexuality. We conclude by arguing that current conceptualisations of full citizenship in contemporary South Africa require a reframing that recognises the coloniality of power and the heterogeneity of marginalised and invisibilised subjectivities.

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Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Stephens

Boonzaier

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Queer geographers and others who study sexuality (Moreau 2015; Tucker 2009) have pointed to Cape Town as a tale of two queer cities. The De Waterkant and Green Point areas of the city bowl are home to queer bars and other spaces of consumption, while queer people who live in townships are excluded from these spaces.…”

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Queer Global Displacement: Social Reproduction, Refugee Survival, and Organised Abandonment in Nairobi, Cape Town, and Paris

Bhagat

2023

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Queer refugees are misfits in the global political economy of migration. While international human rights law has provided some room for queer acceptance, queer refugees face organised abandonment—marginality, erasure, and invisibility—as they attempt to survive in the face of ongoing displacement. This paper explores queer refugee survival in Nairobi, Cape Town, and Paris, and examines the netted practices of the state, non‐state actors, and civil society embedded in a landscape of heteronormativity and anti‐migrant sentiment. In so doing, this paper emphasises queerness as a form of precarity inseparable from the overarching violence of race, class, and capital. With this critique in mind, queer refugee survival is constrained by the lack of access to shelter, community, and work‐related social reproduction. In short, queer refugees face deeper marginality than their cis‐gendered and heterosexual counterparts as they attempt to survive in the city.

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“…Zethu Matebeni's (2011) work on intersectional citizenship and violence against sexual minorities in post-apartheid South Africa also demonstrates this integration of paradigms in telling women's stories. Through the notion of intersectional citizenship, Moreau (2015) highlights the problem of conflating gendered experiences of oppression as homogeneous. The black lesbian body in South Africa is understood via different and multiple discursive constructs that are related to sociomaterial resources of power.…”

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Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences

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Intersectional citizenship, violence, and lesbian resistance in South Africa

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Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Queer Global Displacement: Social Reproduction, Refugee Survival, and Organised Abandonment in Nairobi, Cape Town, and Paris

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences

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