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Ordinary Transgressions: Gender, Desire, and the Making of Everyday Sexual Worlds in Urban Maputo

Explore below a curated selection of resources for the Political Education Teach-in series #28 about Ordinary Transgressions: Gender, Desire, and the Making of Everyday Sexual Worlds in Urban Maputo with Sandra Manuel. All the resources are authored by Global South feminists. For a more comprehensive collection on this and other feminist topics, visit the South Feminist Knowledge Hub.

Feminist Politics of Intimacy, Pleasure, and Desire

Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice
Argues that sexual pleasure and choice are fundamental to women’s freedom, yet suppressed by patriarchal, heteronormative systems. It calls for…
Author: Patricia McFadden
English

Me, Mon Sexe and I 
Two Fridays a month, Me My Sexe and I® is the podcast that makes the personal experiences of black women…
Author: Axelle Jah Njiké
French

Coloniality, Sexuality, Gender, and Power

Colonialidad y Género
This article explores the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality to understand the alarming indifference men display towards violence…
Author: María Lugones
Spanish

Não vão nos matar agora
The theses in this book undoubtedly contribute to efforts to overcome the classic feminist interpretation focused on gender and sexuality—what…
Author: Jota Mombaça
Portuguese

Cultural Representations, Storytelling, and Shifting Sexual Narratives: Agency, Constraint, and Creativity

Sexuality, Class, and Everyday Life in Urban Africa

La Colonialité du Genre
I am interested in the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in order to understand the troubling indifference that…
Author: María Lugones
French

Queerness, Non-normativity, and Resistance

Intimacy, Queerness, Race.
‘What do we see when we look at ourselves?’ asked South African visual activist/artist Zanele Muholi in her 2006 photographic…
Author: Zethu Matebeni
English

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)

African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic
This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to…
Author: Charmaine Pereira, Dzodzi Tsikata, Hope Chigudu, Sandra Manuel, Sylvia Tamale
English

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