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Join B Camminga & John Marnell for a discussion on Queer & Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum & Diaspora. ⏰ 5:30pm, 30th Nov 📍 Breezeblock, Brixton, #Johannesburg 🎟️ RSVP: bit.ly/3XuBR6A More info here: bit.ly/3U2k3wR #Queer #Trans #Africa #LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈

Instead of reading *that* Guardian interview, I’m reposting B Camminga’s brilliant piece, centering the words of trans (& cis) African feminists. ✨ bit.ly/3ntJpnq

Today this important event kicks off in Johannesburg. Many speakers (including myself) and two exciting keynotes by Stella Nyanzi and E. Tendayi Achiume. Keynotes will be live-streamed- follow the link: wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

What a nice gift from conference organisers to all presenters! Thank you!

Conference kicking off!!! So exciting!!! CAS Edinburgh ACMS Wits University The British Academy The African LGBTQI+ Migration research Network

Live now with Tendayi Achiume as our keynote for African + Queer and Trans Displacements wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

1/3 🧵Launching today! 🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 'Vulnerability Amplified: Assessing the needs of LGBTI+ refugees in South Africa'.🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍🌈 Results of a year long qualitative WhatsApp based research project with LGBTI+ refugees in SA. 300+ respondents Take aways in tweet 2 tinyurl.com/3xfmyx7n

Big take aways for researchers 1)Limited use of 'queer' to self-ID 2)Massive confusion regarding docs +status +access 3)Indication of greater numbers of trans migrants in SA than previously recog 4)Above evid. in shift to gender based asylum claims 5)Geog spread=more than metros

2/3 S/O to our incredible research team Anold mulaisho🏳️‍🌈 Pachedu Group The Fruit Basket Dr Thea de Gruchy The African LGBTQI+ Migration research Network ACMS Wits University And our funders The Other Foundation Williams Institute Open Society University Network #LGBTQ #lgbtrefugee #queerrefugees #queerasylum #LGBTQRights #transmigration #queermigrants

Williams Institute was proud to support this important research on #LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers as part of our 2021 Global LGBTI Small Grants program. Congrats to B Camminga and the entire team on this groundbreaking project!

Listen in to Ugandan feminist theorist Stella Nyanzi live The African LGBTQI+ Migration research Network shorturl.at/tOQS8

"Write your book! WRITE your poems!" Stella Nyanzi keynote, reminding us that this is one of the ways we make change.

And that’s that.

!!! Woke up to the news that 'Transgender Refugees & the Imagined South Africa' is joint winner of the Academy of Science of SA AcademyofScienceSA Humanities Book Prize (emerging Researcher) !!! Given the world RN, this feels extra special & important. tinyurl.com/4dzv3w5p

This is going to be such an incredible event on the legacy of celebrated hairdresser & performer, Kewpie, & her collection of photographs depicting life in District Six for gays & girls, with my fave Ruth Ramsden-Karelse and the incredible GALA - Queer Archive. If you're in Cape Town, go!

'LGBTIQ+ migrants & asylum seekers in South Africa: major new study identifies a diverse, wide-spread community' ...Or what we learnt (BIG THINGS!) from the over 350 LGBTIQ+ migrants participating in SA's first quantitative study with this community tinyurl.com/mwd862bt

Our submission as The African LGBTQI+ Migration research Network on the South African migration white paper & its impact on LGBTQI+ asylum seekers: 1. '1st safe country' principle + exposure to harm 2. removal of access healthcare 3. blocking access to administrative justice 👇 tinyurl.com/37rj24mf

What if we viewed trans asylum seekers with incorrect ID documents as experiencing statelessness? Would the UNHCR then have a mandate to provide legal gender recognition? Out today in Journal of Refugee Studies, I argue why this should be so #TransRights #UNHCR #LGR tinyurl.com/2m4ps2yf

Wrote a little something with Ruth Ramsden-Karelse on ILGA World , pinkwashing, Palestinian solidarity, historical precedent & what we can learn from Simon Nkoli & the South African organisations & groups showing leadership now