East African Queer and Trans Displacements

Barbara Bompani is a Reader in Africa and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the co-editor of two collections including Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State (2017).B Camminga (they/she) is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender at the University of Bristol, UK and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, SA.John Marnell (he/him) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Center for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is co-editor of Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora (ZED, 2021). Kamau Wairuri is a Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is interested in the ways thatsocial order is imagined, produced, and maintained in Africa, with a focus on the politics of criminal justice onthe continent.

East African Queer and Trans Displacements offers a critical and accessible analysis of international refugee policies when they confront national laws, regional transnational relationships, Christian fundamentalism, and climate change. Through an intimate portrait of asylum seekers’ lives, the book invites scholars and practitioners to expand their scope of analysis and develop new and better supportive strategies for LGBTQI Africans.

• IntroductionJohn Marnell, B Camminga, Barbara Bompani & Kamau Wairuri ‘East African Queer and Trans Displacements: Local Tensions, Regional Challenges and Global Implications’New directions: Theories, methods and practices Poem – Sam Adam, ‘Estrangement (Ghorba)’ (edited by Maneo Mohale)1.Sam Adam, ‘Converging Trails: Navigating queerness, Homeland and a Beyond-Binaries Explorations’2.Stella Nyanzi, ‘Deception and Evidence for Queer Exodus from Uganda: Reflexive Autoethnography’ 3.B Camminga, ‘Parallel Legal Regimes: Homotransnationalism, LGBTQI+ Refugees and a Failing International Protection System’4.Miriam Gleckman-Krut, ‘On Disembodied Details and the Lives they Imply: Archiving Queer Displacement in an African context’Protection gaps: Violence, precarity and abandonmentPoem - Mihret Kebede, ‘An Intimate Exile’5.Gabriel du Plessix, ‘Life in Limbo: Queer and Trans Encampment in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp’6.Neil J. W. Crawford, Katie McQuaid & Nath Niyitegeka, 'Climate and Environmental Injustices in Kampala, Uganda: Lived experiences of LGBTQI+ Refugees'7.B Camminga, John Marnell & Emmy Manou, ‘The Externalisation of Borders and Barbarism: Rwanda and the Return of the LGBT Question’8.Kamau Wairuri & Mwangi Mwaura, ‘“It's not a Safe Haven or La La Land!” Queer refugees survival of State Policing in Nairobi’ 3. Everyday life: Navigating social and spatial bordersPoem– Diriye Osman, ‘I Bleed Black’9.Barbara Bompani, ‘From Sinner to “Un-Sinned”: Faith and Religious Experiences in the Everyday Life of LGBTQ+ Displaced People in Nairobi’10.John Marnell, ‘ “I Sucked a lot of Dicks to Get this Place!” Home-making and Care Practices among East African LGBTQ Refugees’11.Megan Douglas, ‘‘This Is How I Am’: Fashion, Agency and (In)visibility among Gay and Trans Ugandan Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Nairobi’EpilogueJohn Marnell & B Camminga ‘Displacements in an Uncertain Future’