Taylor Riley is a queer anthropologist and lecturer in gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD from BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth (2018). Since 2016, she has taught at different institutions, including Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Augsburg, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Irvine.

"Taylor Riley’s deep respect for her South African interlocutors as fellow theorists emerges in rich ethnographic detail. The book’s focus on sound pushes the field in new ways, adding a great deal to our understanding of queer lives in Africa."Katrina Daly Thompson, Professor & Chair of African Cultural Studies, Director of the African Languages Program, University of Wisconsin – Madison

• Introduction;  1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape;  2. Performance everyday labors, and world-making;  3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity;  4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds;  5. Sex after discourse, life after queer

Taylor Riley is a queer anthropologist and lecturer in gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD from BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth (2018). Since 2016, she has taught at different institutions, including Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Augsburg, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Irvine.

"Taylor Riley’s deep respect for her South African interlocutors as fellow theorists emerges in rich ethnographic detail. The book’s focus on sound pushes the field in new ways, adding a great deal to our understanding of queer lives in Africa."Katrina Daly Thompson, Professor & Chair of African Cultural Studies, Director of the African Languages Program, University of Wisconsin – Madison

• Introduction;  1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape;  2. Performance everyday labors, and world-making;  3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity;  4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds;  5. Sex after discourse, life after queer

Taylor Riley is a queer anthropologist and lecturer in gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD from BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth (2018). Since 2016, she has taught at different institutions, including Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Augsburg, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Irvine.

"Taylor Riley’s deep respect for her South African interlocutors as fellow theorists emerges in rich ethnographic detail. The book’s focus on sound pushes the field in new ways, adding a great deal to our understanding of queer lives in Africa."Katrina Daly Thompson, Professor & Chair of African Cultural Studies, Director of the African Languages Program, University of Wisconsin – Madison

• Introduction;  1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape;  2. Performance everyday labors, and world-making;  3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity;  4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds;  5. Sex after discourse, life after queer