Haley McEwen

This chapter sets out a theoretical framework for making sense of anti-gender politics in African countries and for interrogating the ‘pro-family’ rhetoric that ultra-conservative groups are lodging against bodily autonomy, gender sexuality, and reproductive justice in African countries and at global scales. The historical development of the U.S. C...

This chapter discusses key themes that emerged through this investigation of U.S. Christian Right pro-family advocacy against sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, and Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Africa. Pro-family developments underway in African countries are considered in relation to the shifting geopolitics that are shaping,...

Over the course of the past two decades, the role of U.S. Christian Right groups in setting the stage for the creation of anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation in African countries has become increasingly recognised. This awareness was largely prompted in 2009 when investigative researchers uncovered connections between American anti-LGBTIQ+ Christian Right act...

This chapter discusses the methodology employed to investigate how and why U.S. Christian Right groups are advancing ‘pro-family’ politics in African countries. The overarching methodological approach, informed by intersectional and decolonial feminism and critical social theory, is discussed, and the specific analytical tools and techniques used t...

This chapter discusses the role that U.S.-based pro-family groups have played in mobilizing and coordinating campaigns against Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in African countries. The U.S. abstinence-only movement is discussed, providing historical context to the contemporary Stop CSE campaign that gained momentum in several African countr...

This chapter discusses the efforts of U.S. Christian Right pro-family groups to promote pro-life agendas against sexual and reproductive rights in African countries. Beginning with a brief overview of the historical development of the pro-life movement in the U.S., this chapter shows how the movement gained momentum and a broader support base by li...

Introduction The needs of people living with disabilities regarding sex and sexual health remain largely neglected. Knowledge and resources about disabled sexuality have emerged mainly from the global north and have centered on heteronormative ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality. Methods An affirmative, sex positive, queer, and intersectional e...

Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader explores how the category queer, as a critical stance or set of perspectives, contributes to opportunities individually and collectively for advancing queer social justice within the context and concerns of schooling and education. The collection takes up this general goal by presenting a cross s...

Les analyses critiques des discours et des lois anti-LGBTQI+ en Afrique ont mis en évidence la manière dont les relations de pouvoir entre États africains et occidentaux ont façonné et continuent de façonner le genre et la diversité sexuelle sur le continent. Si ces analyses ont permis une conceptualisation critique des politiques anti-LGBTQI+ en c...

Post-apartheid, South Africa has come a long way in making the inclusion of gender and sexuality equality explicit in its Constitution. To make schools more inclusive for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) identifying learners, the Department of Basic Education has developed what it claims are South Africa’s first gui...

To make sense of contemporary efforts of the US conservative “pro-family” movement to advance anti-LGBTIQ+ and antifeminist agendas in Africa, this article takes a decolonial approach to the notion of the nuclear family. Beginning with the colonial history of the gender binary and hierarchy, it first discusses how the notion of the nuclear family i...

This report interrogates anti-gender attacks on Gender and Sexuality Studies scholars and programmes in Brazil, Poland, Hungary, and South Africa.

This article examines the widespread notion that homosexuality is ‘unAfrican’ in relation to a historical contextual factor that has been widely neglected within efforts to situate and make sense of this widespread notion: the legacy of western population control interventions in Africa and the anxieties, fears and suspicions that they have provoke...

In today’s world, there is an urgent need for organizations to transform into more equitable and diverse enterprises. For some, the need for change is painfully obvious, especially those who experience exclusion or discrimination on a daily basis. For others, diversity and transformation might feel like an overly daunting or complicated task, which...

In this article I identify some of the rhetorical strategies that help to explain how American ‘pro-family’ ideology has become so prolific in the global south and African contexts, despite the logic of coloniality that it reproduces. Three rhetorical strategies are analysed: The use of a rhetoric of ‘love’ in order to disguise an ideology of intol...

Dynamics of race in South Africa are deeply entangled within a world system that continues to enable hegemonic white privilege. Prevalent views and behaviours towards “interracial” relationships reveal a rebellion against the non-racial philosophies and policies of the new government and are an indicator of the ongoing salience of race in shaping l...

Less than thirty years ago, South Africa still had laws strictly prohibiting “interracial” intimacy. In this study, participants shared stories of living in Cape Town with a partner of a different “race” and invoked spatial metaphors, of boundaries and border crossing, describing their experiences in cartographical, “landscaped” language. This arti...

This article argues that the normative construction of ‘family’ in heteronormative ‘nuclear’ terms is infused with power relations, and therefore must not be taken for granted as an analytical category or concept. Not only a site where racialised and patriarchal western notions of sexed and gendered hierarchies have been naturalised and institution...

The enforcement of racial segregation during apartheid was aimed not only at regulating public spaces, residential areas and the workforce, but also at shaping the subjectivities of individuals who were socialised to see themselves through the lens of a white racial hierarchy. The ideology of white supremacy and superiority that informed apartheid...

Contestations over the rights of sexual minorities and gender-nonconforming people in Africa are profoundly shaped by two discourses that both emerge from polarized domestic political debates in the United States: a human rights–centered discourse of “LGBT*I” identity politics that promotes visibility and equal protections and privileges for lesbia...

Contestations over the rights of sexual minorities and gender-nonconforming people in Africa are profoundly shaped by two discourses that both emerge from polarized domestic political debates in the United States: a human rights–centered discourse of “LGBT*I” identity politics that promotes visibility and equal protections and privileges for lesbia...

queer & trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change, as an exhibition, opened up a public space for critical engagement with the idea of the gender binary and the lives of people who do not conform to heteropatriarchal social norms and expectations. Coordinated by the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) and hosted by the Wits Ar...

While tourism is often pitched as a panacea for economic growth in developing countries, it has also been shown to reproduce colonial dynamics of unequal power relations between the West and former colonies and between the historically privileged and the oppressed within post-colonial nations. Through critical discourse analysis of data, this artic...

This paper examines space, identity and power in Prince Albert, a small town in the South African Karoo, through analysis of white representations of urban and social change in the town since the end of apartheid. In doing so, this analysis seeks to contribute to the growing stream of critical philosophy concerned with the relationship between raci...