Serena Owusua Dankwa is an Associate Researcher in the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Berne. She previously held the Sarah Pettit Fellowship at Yale University and worked as a journalist with Swiss Radio and Television. Today, she advocates for the rights and dignity of migrant women and people of colour in Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Black women's network Bla*Sh and a co-editor of the book Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und antirassistischer Widerstand (2019).

'This remarkable book deserves a wide audience … Theoretically subtle and accessible and beautifully written … Highly recommended.' C. Higgs, Choice Magazine

• Prologue: arrival stories; Introduction: freeing our imaginations; 1. Tacit erotic intimacies and the politics of indirection; 2. Supi, secrecy, and the gift of knowing; 3. 'The one who first says 'I love you'': ɔbaa barima, gender, and erotic subjectivity; 4. Sugar motherhood and the collectivization of love; 5. 'Doing everything together': siblinghood, lovership, incest, family; Conclusion a fabric that never goes out of fashion; Bibliography.

Serena Owusua Dankwa is an Associate Researcher in the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Berne. She previously held the Sarah Pettit Fellowship at Yale University and worked as a journalist with Swiss Radio and Television. Today, she advocates for the rights and dignity of migrant women and people of colour in Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Black women's network Bla*Sh and a co-editor of the book Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und antirassistischer Widerstand (2019).

'This remarkable book deserves a wide audience … Theoretically subtle and accessible and beautifully written … Highly recommended.' C. Higgs, Choice Magazine

• Prologue: arrival stories; Introduction: freeing our imaginations; 1. Tacit erotic intimacies and the politics of indirection; 2. Supi, secrecy, and the gift of knowing; 3. 'The one who first says 'I love you'': ɔbaa barima, gender, and erotic subjectivity; 4. Sugar motherhood and the collectivization of love; 5. 'Doing everything together': siblinghood, lovership, incest, family; Conclusion a fabric that never goes out of fashion; Bibliography.

Serena Owusua Dankwa is an Associate Researcher in the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Berne. She previously held the Sarah Pettit Fellowship at Yale University and worked as a journalist with Swiss Radio and Television. Today, she advocates for the rights and dignity of migrant women and people of colour in Switzerland. She is a co-founder of the Black women's network Bla*Sh and a co-editor of the book Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und antirassistischer Widerstand (2019).

'This remarkable book deserves a wide audience … Theoretically subtle and accessible and beautifully written … Highly recommended.' C. Higgs, Choice Magazine

• Prologue: arrival stories; Introduction: freeing our imaginations; 1. Tacit erotic intimacies and the politics of indirection; 2. Supi, secrecy, and the gift of knowing; 3. 'The one who first says 'I love you'': ɔbaa barima, gender, and erotic subjectivity; 4. Sugar motherhood and the collectivization of love; 5. 'Doing everything together': siblinghood, lovership, incest, family; Conclusion a fabric that never goes out of fashion; Bibliography.