Jabulani Chen Pierera is a seasoned human rights advocate with over two decades of experience advancing the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ persons across Africa and globally. As co-founder and former Executive Director of Iranti, he built a globally-recognized organization focused on trans, lesbian, and intersex rights using media and strategic advocacy. His work has shaped policy, resourced grassroots movements and influenced national and international frameworks.

In this episode we talk about becoming and connection, photographs, refuge in place and community and making queer utopia in the present without fences. Land matters in so many ways.

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Dr. Zethu Matebeni is an elder, a community worker, an activist, a writer, a poet and a documentary film maker. Her scholarship has had a immense impact on queer activists and scholars in South Africa and beyond - including, for instance, her book Black lesbian sexualities and identity in South Africa: An ethnography of black lesbian urban life and as collaborative editor and author in impactful queer anthologies such as “Reclaiming Afrikan Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities” , “Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism” and Beyond the Mountain: Queer life in Africa's Gay Capital.

You can watch the Eudy Simelane Memorial Lecture 2021 with Prof. zethu Matebeni that we discuss in the episode here. We also talk about “Southern Perspectives on Gender Relations and Sexualities: A Queer Intervention”

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