Z’étoile Imma
Biographic Data
| ID | 296673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Z’étoile Imma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Z’étoile |
| FAMILY NAME | Imma |
| SIGNATURE | IMMA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University, New Orleans, United States |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading frottage and writing the body in the Black Diasporic feminist archive
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 1-9
Why ‘Southern Feminisms’
The current special issue of Agenda on ‘Southern Feminisms’ was catalysed by an ongoing need to disinvest from feminist theory and thinking set by the Global North (Mohanty, 1986; 2002). Still more
Conversation with FRIDA - Young Feminist Fund Activists from the Global South
Rewriting the SLTRC
This article analyzes two novels that grapple with the politics of memory, reconciliation, and forgiveness in the setting of post-civil war Sierra Leone—Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me (2006) and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love (2011). I argue that Jarrett-Macauley and Forna write against the public testimony model of memory proliferated by international Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in post-conflict societies. I suggest…
Black, Queer, and Precarious Visibilities
Black, Queer, and Precarious VisibilitiesSimon Nkoli's Activist Image in South Africa's Exit Newspaper Z'étoile Imma (bio) We must be visible if we are going to be liberated. —Simon Nkoli In November 2015, Exit, South Africa's longest running monthly LGBT newspaper, published its 300th issue. As critic and activist Donna Smith asserts, in the context of pervasive uncertain and inconsistent publication of lesbian and gay print media in South Afric…
Re)visualizing Black lesbian lives, (trans)masculinity, and township space in the documentary work of Zanele Muholi
This article explores the politics of representing Black queer and trans subjectivities in the recent documentary film and photography of South African lesbian visual activist Zanele Muholi. While Muholi's work has been most often been positioned as an artistic response to the hate-crimes and violence perpetuated against Black lesbians in South African townships, most notably acts of sexual violence known increasingly as corrective rape, I argue …
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 1-9
Why ‘Southern Feminisms’
The current special issue of Agenda on ‘Southern Feminisms’ was catalysed by an ongoing need to disinvest from feminist theory and thinking set by the Global North (Mohanty, 1986; 2002). Still more
Re)visualizing Black lesbian lives, (trans)masculinity, and township space in the documentary work of Zanele Muholi
This article explores the politics of representing Black queer and trans subjectivities in the recent documentary film and photography of South African lesbian visual activist Zanele Muholi. While Muholi's work has been most often been positioned as an artistic response to the hate-crimes and violence perpetuated against Black lesbians in South African townships, most notably acts of sexual violence known increasingly as corrective rape, I argue …
Re)visualizing Black lesbian lives, (trans)masculinity, and township space in the documentary work of Zanele Muholi
This article explores the politics of representing Black queer and trans subjectivities in the recent documentary film and photography of South African lesbian visual activist Zanele Muholi. While Muholi's work has been most often been positioned as an artistic response to the hate-crimes and violence perpetuated against Black lesbians in South African townships, most notably acts of sexual violence known increasingly as corrective rape, I argue …
Rewriting the SLTRC
This article analyzes two novels that grapple with the politics of memory, reconciliation, and forgiveness in the setting of post-civil war Sierra Leone—Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me (2006) and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love (2011). I argue that Jarrett-Macauley and Forna write against the public testimony model of memory proliferated by international Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in post-conflict societies. I suggest…
Black, Queer, and Precarious Visibilities
Black, Queer, and Precarious VisibilitiesSimon Nkoli's Activist Image in South Africa's Exit Newspaper Z'étoile Imma (bio) We must be visible if we are going to be liberated. —Simon Nkoli In November 2015, Exit, South Africa's longest running monthly LGBT newspaper, published its 300th issue. As critic and activist Donna Smith asserts, in the context of pervasive uncertain and inconsistent publication of lesbian and gay print media in South Afric…
Why ‘Southern Feminisms’
The current special issue of Agenda on ‘Southern Feminisms’ was catalysed by an ongoing need to disinvest from feminist theory and thinking set by the Global North (Mohanty, 1986; 2002). Still more
Conversation with FRIDA - Young Feminist Fund Activists from the Global South
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 1-9
Reading frottage and writing the body in the Black Diasporic feminist archive
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works)