Navigating Urban Spaces as Queer Women in South Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20405403
AutoresZuziwe Khuzwayo (University of the Witwatersrand, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas191-200
Data de publicação2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1015-3802 • E-ISSN: 1874-6330
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12132-023-09481-3
OpenAlexW4322741282
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas21

Occupying urban spaces for queer women, often shaped by implicit and explicit forms of regressive heteropatriarchy, has been understood as a challenge for queer women. As a result, queer women struggle to inhabit, live and feel safe in urban spaces. However, further scholarship is needed to consider how queer women may also find strategies to overcome such challenges. Such work can then add productively to, and right an imbalance within, existing scholarship on sexuality and urban space by exploring, acknowledging and giving voice to the lived experiences of queer women especially in urban Africa. Drawing on a PhD study that deployed in-depth interviews with 23 queer women, this intervention looks specifically at how black queer women have found creative ways to create communities with each other in challenging contexts, in the city of Johannesburg. This intervention shows how black queer women resist various forms of oppression by creating safe spaces for themselves (and others) within the city. An appreciation of these strategies by black queer women can then help further discussions as to how we come to understand how queer women occupy and make urban spaces their own through socialisation and support in ways that may also have applicability across the wider continent

Human sexuality · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Psychology