The Power of Kenyan, Christian, Queer Imagination
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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Reading Religion and Queerness in Postcolonial Africa
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
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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Love Bites
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
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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They Say “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” Look, We Are All over Palestine
Series: Decoloniality in Practice
Tackling the homophobic deployment of religion requires using theological tools that expand interpretations of religious meanings and orients them to the suffering of queer communities.
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Fear and Mourning in the Shadow of Orlando
Series: Intersecting Phobias
The temporary inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in the national body involved the exclusion of Muslims through the discourse of the war on terror. Read the full article »
Read More →Two American Fears: Islamophobia and Homophobia
Series: Intersecting Phobias
This moment presents both difficulties and opportunities for analyzing the intersections of Islamophobia and homophobia. By historicizing the emergence of each, we gain analytical clarity about the complex negotiations of identity, never static but always becoming.
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