A Currier
Biographic Data
| ID | 40973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Currier |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Currier |
| SIGNATURE | CURRIER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9700-5427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Prison same-sex sexualities in the context of politicized homophobia in Malawi
Prison same-sex sexualities have largely gone unnoticed in Malawi, an African nation associated with politicized homophobia. The term ‘politicized homophobia’ refers to political elites’ public hostility toward same-sex sexualities, gender variance, and gender and sexual diversity activism. In a context typified by scrutiny of same-sex sexualities, it is surprising that certain same-sex sexual practices, specifically prison same-sex sexualities, …
The politics of pre-emption: Mobilisation against LGBT rights in Liberia
Research on political homophobia in contemporary African nations tends to focus on the legal, political and social consequences of such homophobia. However, this work remains limited in its treatment of the rise of political homophobia and mobilisation against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. This article redirects such research by concentrating on the indigenous origins of mobilisation against LGBT rights in Liberia. Focusin…
African Antisodomy Laws as Unwanted Colonial Inheritances
Across the African continent, antisodomy laws are increasingly being repealed. Yet uneven support for the rescission of antisodomy laws in other African countries remains. In this essay, we treat the retention of antisodomy laws in Namibia as an unwanted colonial legacy that serves as a reminder of the unfinished business of decolonization. We explore how politicized homophobia in Namibia functions as a state tool by continually reinscribing inhe…
Elite discourses, sexuality and HIV/Aids interventions in Malawi
In this book, Samantha Page tracks how different political actors, such as workers in national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local health workers, lawyers, researchers an
Not in our community: Queer women challenge religious homophobia in rural Kentucky
Not in my backyard" (NIMBY) movements emerge when a social or political event spurs opposition from local residents. Much research on NIMBY movements concentrates on local residents' efforts to defend their community from unwanted "outsiders" or elements, such as a waste incinerator or sex offenders. Little is written on how NIMBY activism can redefine a place to be more inclusive of sexual minorities and supportive of progressive social initiati…
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: Homophobia in Malawi
Although sexual minorities in Africa continue to face harsh penalties for same-sex relationships, strong anti-homophobic resistance exists across the continent. This book systematically charts the emergence and effects of politicized homophobia in Malawi and shows how it has been used as a strategy by political elites to consolidate their moral and political authority, through punishing LGBT people and dividing social movements. Here, Ashley Curr…
Pursuing social justice through public health: Gender and sexual diversity activism in Malawi
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized publ…
Overlapping publics and the negotiation of legitimacy in South African and Namibian sexual politics
This article explores how and why social movement organizations negotiate their presence in, and demands on, multiple public spheres. We analyse the strategies of two social movement organizations, Free Gender in Cape Town, South Africa, and Sister Namibia in Windhoek, Namibia. Free Gender elected to withdraw participation from a governmental task team convened to address the issue of homophobic violence, despite the opportunity this offered the …
When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
"When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900‒1958." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 51(2), pp. 321–322
Lesbian”/female same-sex sexualities in Africa
Understandings of African lesbian sexualities have been affected by silence, repression, and uncertainty. The subject of lesbian experiences and sexualities in Africa constitutes an opportunity for feminist scholars to address the transnational politics of knowledge production about African lesbians' lives and the contours of lesbian art, activism, and relationships in African nations. This article contextualizes the state of research on African …
Querying Queer African Archives: Methods and Movements
Rather than attempting to recover African same-sex practices from the past, we probe the kinds of discursive protocols that can be implemented to uncover queer African archives, defined as methods and movements. In this process, we reconceptualize a transnational queer archive that remains vigilant against dominant taxonomies and actively connected to its political present and future. Because queer African subjects are (dis)located at the junctio…
Queer Studies African Studies
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Studies African Studies: An (Im)possible Transaction Ashley Currier; Ashley Currier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thérèse Migraine-George Thérèse Migraine-George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 281–305. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428783 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Transnational Promotion of LGBT Rights
Book Review| January 01 2016 Transnational Promotion of LGBT Rights Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide. Thoreson, Ryan Richard. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 288 pp. Ashley Currier Ashley Currier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3315277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Gay Rights in Post-Apartheid Namibia
Arrested Solidarity: Obstacles to Intermovement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi
Arrested Solidarity:Obstacles to Intermovement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi Ashley Currier (bio) Gender and sexual diversity organizing is on the rise throughout Africa. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist organizations contest social, political, and religious opprobrium toward homosexuality and gender nonconformity in different African nations (Epprecht 2013), including but not limited to Cameroon (Awondo 2010), Kenya (D…
Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Visibility matters to activists—to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. This book presents an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. As such, it reveals the complexities of the LGBT movements…
De la ventriloquie provisoire: L'inclusion de la catégorie transgenre dans les mobilisations LGBT en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud
Se basant sur un travail ethnographique comprenant des entretiens et documents rassemblés en 2005 et 2006, cet article utilise le concept de « ventriloquie provisoire » dans l'étude de l'inclusion proactive des personnes et revendications transgenres par des organisations du mouvement LGBT en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud. Pratiquant cette « ventriloquie provisoire », les militants LGBT namibiens et sud-africains prennent publiquement la parole au…
The Aftermath of Decolonization: Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Postindependence Namibia
Since the late 1990s, Namibian gender and sexual dissidents have publicly challenged homophobic statements made by leaders of the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), the country’s ruling political party. In this article, I treat Namibian gender and sexual diversity organizing as a decolonization movement contesting SWAPO’s grip over the trajectory of decolonization. To illustrate how gender and sexuality movements operate as decolon…
The Strategy of Normalization in the South African Lgbt Movement
The article theorizes and presents normalization as a movement-level strategy available to social movements dealing with an internal threat. By defining themselves against an internal threat's abnormality through a process of normalization, social movement organizations assert how they and the movement operate within socially and politically respectable parameters. Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and newspaper data, I show how mainstream Sout…
Political Homophobia in Postcolonial Namibia
The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) delivered Namibia from South African apartheid rule in 1990. Namibia's democratic future began with the promise of equality. In 1995, however, SWAPO initiated a campaign of political homophobia. In this article, I make a case for viewing SWAPO leaders' deployment of political homophobia as a gendered political strategy. I draw on a qualitative analysis of 194 articles from Namibian newspapers p…
Character Building: The Dynamics of Emerging Social Movement Groups
Few studies have collected contemporaneous data on social movements at their earliest stages. Thus, we know little about how social movement groups develop the characteristics that will later become assumed as what the group is. This study explores how social movement groups come to take on a particular character by collecting longitudinal, contemporaneous, comparative, and interactional data on what we term "emerging social movement groups" (ESM…
Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Visibility matters to activists—to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. This book presents an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. As such, it reveals the complexities of the LGBT movements…
Queer Studies African Studies
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Studies African Studies: An (Im)possible Transaction Ashley Currier; Ashley Currier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thérèse Migraine-George Thérèse Migraine-George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 281–305. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428783 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Political Homophobia in Postcolonial Namibia
The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) delivered Namibia from South African apartheid rule in 1990. Namibia's democratic future began with the promise of equality. In 1995, however, SWAPO initiated a campaign of political homophobia. In this article, I make a case for viewing SWAPO leaders' deployment of political homophobia as a gendered political strategy. I draw on a qualitative analysis of 194 articles from Namibian newspapers p…
Lesbian”/female same-sex sexualities in Africa
Understandings of African lesbian sexualities have been affected by silence, repression, and uncertainty. The subject of lesbian experiences and sexualities in Africa constitutes an opportunity for feminist scholars to address the transnational politics of knowledge production about African lesbians' lives and the contours of lesbian art, activism, and relationships in African nations. This article contextualizes the state of research on African …
The Aftermath of Decolonization: Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Postindependence Namibia
Since the late 1990s, Namibian gender and sexual dissidents have publicly challenged homophobic statements made by leaders of the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), the country’s ruling political party. In this article, I treat Namibian gender and sexual diversity organizing as a decolonization movement contesting SWAPO’s grip over the trajectory of decolonization. To illustrate how gender and sexuality movements operate as decolon…
The Strategy of Normalization in the South African Lgbt Movement
The article theorizes and presents normalization as a movement-level strategy available to social movements dealing with an internal threat. By defining themselves against an internal threat's abnormality through a process of normalization, social movement organizations assert how they and the movement operate within socially and politically respectable parameters. Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and newspaper data, I show how mainstream Sout…
Character Building: The Dynamics of Emerging Social Movement Groups
Few studies have collected contemporaneous data on social movements at their earliest stages. Thus, we know little about how social movement groups develop the characteristics that will later become assumed as what the group is. This study explores how social movement groups come to take on a particular character by collecting longitudinal, contemporaneous, comparative, and interactional data on what we term "emerging social movement groups" (ESM…
The politics of pre-emption: Mobilisation against LGBT rights in Liberia
Research on political homophobia in contemporary African nations tends to focus on the legal, political and social consequences of such homophobia. However, this work remains limited in its treatment of the rise of political homophobia and mobilisation against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. This article redirects such research by concentrating on the indigenous origins of mobilisation against LGBT rights in Liberia. Focusin…
Querying Queer African Archives: Methods and Movements
Rather than attempting to recover African same-sex practices from the past, we probe the kinds of discursive protocols that can be implemented to uncover queer African archives, defined as methods and movements. In this process, we reconceptualize a transnational queer archive that remains vigilant against dominant taxonomies and actively connected to its political present and future. Because queer African subjects are (dis)located at the junctio…
Not in our community: Queer women challenge religious homophobia in rural Kentucky
Not in my backyard" (NIMBY) movements emerge when a social or political event spurs opposition from local residents. Much research on NIMBY movements concentrates on local residents' efforts to defend their community from unwanted "outsiders" or elements, such as a waste incinerator or sex offenders. Little is written on how NIMBY activism can redefine a place to be more inclusive of sexual minorities and supportive of progressive social initiati…
Pursuing social justice through public health: Gender and sexual diversity activism in Malawi
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized publ…
Arrested Solidarity: Obstacles to Intermovement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi
Arrested Solidarity:Obstacles to Intermovement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi Ashley Currier (bio) Gender and sexual diversity organizing is on the rise throughout Africa. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist organizations contest social, political, and religious opprobrium toward homosexuality and gender nonconformity in different African nations (Epprecht 2013), including but not limited to Cameroon (Awondo 2010), Kenya (D…
De la ventriloquie provisoire: L'inclusion de la catégorie transgenre dans les mobilisations LGBT en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud
Se basant sur un travail ethnographique comprenant des entretiens et documents rassemblés en 2005 et 2006, cet article utilise le concept de « ventriloquie provisoire » dans l'étude de l'inclusion proactive des personnes et revendications transgenres par des organisations du mouvement LGBT en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud. Pratiquant cette « ventriloquie provisoire », les militants LGBT namibiens et sud-africains prennent publiquement la parole au…
Character Building: The Dynamics of Emerging Social Movement Groups
Few studies have collected contemporaneous data on social movements at their earliest stages. Thus, we know little about how social movement groups develop the characteristics that will later become assumed as what the group is. This study explores how social movement groups come to take on a particular character by collecting longitudinal, contemporaneous, comparative, and interactional data on what we term "emerging social movement groups" (ESM…
The Strategy of Normalization in the South African Lgbt Movement
The article theorizes and presents normalization as a movement-level strategy available to social movements dealing with an internal threat. By defining themselves against an internal threat's abnormality through a process of normalization, social movement organizations assert how they and the movement operate within socially and politically respectable parameters. Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and newspaper data, I show how mainstream Sout…
Political Homophobia in Postcolonial Namibia
The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) delivered Namibia from South African apartheid rule in 1990. Namibia's democratic future began with the promise of equality. In 1995, however, SWAPO initiated a campaign of political homophobia. In this article, I make a case for viewing SWAPO leaders' deployment of political homophobia as a gendered political strategy. I draw on a qualitative analysis of 194 articles from Namibian newspapers p…
Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
Visibility matters to activists—to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times of political hostility or internal crisis. This book presents an intimate look at how Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations have cultivated visibility and invisibility as strategies over time. As such, it reveals the complexities of the LGBT movements…
De la ventriloquie provisoire: L'inclusion de la catégorie transgenre dans les mobilisations LGBT en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud
Se basant sur un travail ethnographique comprenant des entretiens et documents rassemblés en 2005 et 2006, cet article utilise le concept de « ventriloquie provisoire » dans l'étude de l'inclusion proactive des personnes et revendications transgenres par des organisations du mouvement LGBT en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud. Pratiquant cette « ventriloquie provisoire », les militants LGBT namibiens et sud-africains prennent publiquement la parole au…
The Aftermath of Decolonization: Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Postindependence Namibia
Since the late 1990s, Namibian gender and sexual dissidents have publicly challenged homophobic statements made by leaders of the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), the country’s ruling political party. In this article, I treat Namibian gender and sexual diversity organizing as a decolonization movement contesting SWAPO’s grip over the trajectory of decolonization. To illustrate how gender and sexuality movements operate as decolon…
Arrested Solidarity: Obstacles to Intermovement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi
Arrested Solidarity:Obstacles to Intermovement Support for LGBT Rights in Malawi Ashley Currier (bio) Gender and sexual diversity organizing is on the rise throughout Africa. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist organizations contest social, political, and religious opprobrium toward homosexuality and gender nonconformity in different African nations (Epprecht 2013), including but not limited to Cameroon (Awondo 2010), Kenya (D…
Transnational Promotion of LGBT Rights
Book Review| January 01 2016 Transnational Promotion of LGBT Rights Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide. Thoreson, Ryan Richard. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 288 pp. Ashley Currier Ashley Currier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (1): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3315277 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Gay Rights in Post-Apartheid Namibia
Lesbian”/female same-sex sexualities in Africa
Understandings of African lesbian sexualities have been affected by silence, repression, and uncertainty. The subject of lesbian experiences and sexualities in Africa constitutes an opportunity for feminist scholars to address the transnational politics of knowledge production about African lesbians' lives and the contours of lesbian art, activism, and relationships in African nations. This article contextualizes the state of research on African …
Querying Queer African Archives: Methods and Movements
Rather than attempting to recover African same-sex practices from the past, we probe the kinds of discursive protocols that can be implemented to uncover queer African archives, defined as methods and movements. In this process, we reconceptualize a transnational queer archive that remains vigilant against dominant taxonomies and actively connected to its political present and future. Because queer African subjects are (dis)located at the junctio…
Queer Studies African Studies
Research Article| April 01 2016 Queer Studies African Studies: An (Im)possible Transaction Ashley Currier; Ashley Currier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thérèse Migraine-George Thérèse Migraine-George Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 281–305. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428783 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Pursuing social justice through public health: Gender and sexual diversity activism in Malawi
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized publ…
Overlapping publics and the negotiation of legitimacy in South African and Namibian sexual politics
This article explores how and why social movement organizations negotiate their presence in, and demands on, multiple public spheres. We analyse the strategies of two social movement organizations, Free Gender in Cape Town, South Africa, and Sister Namibia in Windhoek, Namibia. Free Gender elected to withdraw participation from a governmental task team convened to address the issue of homophobic violence, despite the opportunity this offered the …
When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
"When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900‒1958." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 51(2), pp. 321–322
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: Homophobia in Malawi
Although sexual minorities in Africa continue to face harsh penalties for same-sex relationships, strong anti-homophobic resistance exists across the continent. This book systematically charts the emergence and effects of politicized homophobia in Malawi and shows how it has been used as a strategy by political elites to consolidate their moral and political authority, through punishing LGBT people and dividing social movements. Here, Ashley Curr…
Not in our community: Queer women challenge religious homophobia in rural Kentucky
Not in my backyard" (NIMBY) movements emerge when a social or political event spurs opposition from local residents. Much research on NIMBY movements concentrates on local residents' efforts to defend their community from unwanted "outsiders" or elements, such as a waste incinerator or sex offenders. Little is written on how NIMBY activism can redefine a place to be more inclusive of sexual minorities and supportive of progressive social initiati…
The politics of pre-emption: Mobilisation against LGBT rights in Liberia
Research on political homophobia in contemporary African nations tends to focus on the legal, political and social consequences of such homophobia. However, this work remains limited in its treatment of the rise of political homophobia and mobilisation against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. This article redirects such research by concentrating on the indigenous origins of mobilisation against LGBT rights in Liberia. Focusin…
African Antisodomy Laws as Unwanted Colonial Inheritances
Across the African continent, antisodomy laws are increasingly being repealed. Yet uneven support for the rescission of antisodomy laws in other African countries remains. In this essay, we treat the retention of antisodomy laws in Namibia as an unwanted colonial legacy that serves as a reminder of the unfinished business of decolonization. We explore how politicized homophobia in Namibia functions as a state tool by continually reinscribing inhe…
Elite discourses, sexuality and HIV/Aids interventions in Malawi
In this book, Samantha Page tracks how different political actors, such as workers in national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local health workers, lawyers, researchers an
Prison same-sex sexualities in the context of politicized homophobia in Malawi
Prison same-sex sexualities have largely gone unnoticed in Malawi, an African nation associated with politicized homophobia. The term ‘politicized homophobia’ refers to political elites’ public hostility toward same-sex sexualities, gender variance, and gender and sexual diversity activism. In a context typified by scrutiny of same-sex sexualities, it is surprising that certain same-sex sexual practices, specifically prison same-sex sexualities, …
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (13 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Lesbian (8 works) · Law (7 works)