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Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer Articles

The Power of Kenyan, Christian, Queer Imagination

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Adriaan van Klinken
October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

The arts have an ability to explore the potential of religion to contribute to a progressive, critical, and innovative vision for society, and thus to inspire social transformation.

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On Decolonizing Queer Studies

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Sa'ed Atshan
October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

This essay draws upon van Klinken’s book as a launching pad to think through decolonizing queer studies more broadly.

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Reading Religion and Queerness in Postcolonial Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Mujahid Osman
October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

Religion can be viewed not only as a site of oppression for queer bodies, but also as a source of meaning-making and liberation.

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The Margins of “Queer Arts of Resistance” in Sub-Saharan Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Ludovic Lado
October 12, 2021

Van Klinken’s major contribution to the debate is indeed his focus on the use of religiously inspired arguments to challenge homophobia.

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Religion, LGBTIQ+ Bodies, and Arts of Resistance in Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Esther Mombo
October 5, 2021

The narratives that LGBTIQ+ persons relay to van Klinken serve as data points that can then be used to show the folly of those who think LGBTIQ+ persons do not exist or are not worthy of receiving recognition.

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Love Bites

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Ebenezer Obadare
September 28, 2021

Van Klinken’s book is an astounding ero-ethnography in which the author grapples with the question of the research field as a site of desire and vulnerability.

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Introduction to Symposium on Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Joshua Lupo
September 28, 2021October 27, 2021

Van Klinken and this symposium’s contributors open up new spaces for imagining the emancipatory possibilities that come with attending to queer religious life in Kenya and beyond.

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