We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay”—BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12918488
AutoresEsihle Lupindo (0000-0003-4027-8499, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas193-199
Fecha de publicación2024-08-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ccc/tcae028
OpenAlexW4401856115
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas22

Much research looking at Queer migration focuses on the movement of people between countries and continents, where countries of origin are deemed unsafe. However, literature shows that in South Africa there are more people migrating internally than those migrating into South Africa from other countries. In this article, I draw on 15 interviews with BlackQueers who moved from rural to urban areas in South Africa to explain their Queer-centric motivations for migrating internally, which enabled them to “confront what it means to be Queer” through physical and digital interactions. The digital world is important because it surpasses fixed geographies. Digital spaces offer a refuge that may not be available in offline spaces even when there are legal protections that state that this should not be the case. This article provokes transnational scholarship to pay equal attention to movements within countries and digital spaces as it does to cross-country flows

Political economy · Political science · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Sex work and related issues · Gender Studies · Law