Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism

Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies towards a historical examination of North–South interactions in theorizing sexual activism. Gay liberation literature here refers to texts which contributed to the emergence of gay and lesbian sexualities in South Africa, including works of fiction, poetry, drama, anthologies as well as newsletters, newspapers, and newsletters. The primary archive used as an example of gay liberation literature is Link/Skakel, the official newsletter of the GASA, which later became a mainstream gay newspaper called Exit

"Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive

My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism

Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith's On Beauty

Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of On Beauty, encourages an analysis of disciplinarity and institutionalization. I offer a reading of Smith’s representation of blackness in its institutional, social, and aesthetic dimensions

Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia

Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) in contrast to the exploration of polygamy in Nigerian-American dramatist Tess Onwueme’s early play The Reign of Wazobia (1988), written a year after Chinua Achebe’s novel. As a third generation African writer, and one whose work is less well recognized than other African novelists and playwrights, Onwueme occupies a relatively marginal role in the Nigerian and African literary canon. Nevertheless her work facilitates an analysis of neocolonialism, though in contrast to Achebe’s realist narrative, her evocation of myth and tradition appears to take the discussion into a pre-colonial past as in many of Wole Soyinka’s plays

City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smok

Chapter 3 "Rights a di Plan"

Chapter 3, “‘Rights a di Plan’: Sistren and Sexual Solidarities in Jamaica,” focuses on the newsletter Sistren published by the Sistren Theatre Collectives in the Jamaica from the 1970s to the 1990s. The contents of the magazine reveal that while the women’s movement advocated legislative reform to address rampant sexual violence, activists steered clear of making any direct connections with reproductive and sexual choice and orientations. Presenting these as health concerns enabled a detailed, though indirect, discussion on sexual choice within these magazines without inviting opprobrium either from the large readership or the governmental machinery in Jamaica and other Caribbean nation-states

InnovFaceNet: Deep Face Recognition for Industrial Environments

In recent times the usage of intelligent systems have paved way formany applications to be robust and self-reliant. One such popularand vast growing technology is face recognition. Facial Recognitiontechnology is used in security, surveillance, criminal justice systemsand many other multimedia platforms. This work proposes a realtime facial recognition technology which can be used in any industrialsetup eliminating manual supervision, ensuring authorized accessto the personnel in the plant. Due to the recent development ofCOVID-19 pandemic around the world, wearing masks has becomea necessity. Our proposed facial recognition technology identifies aperson’s face with mask or no mask in real time with a speed of20 FPS on a CPU and an F1-score of 95.07%. This makes ouralgorithm fast, secure, robust and deployable on a simple personalcomputer or any edge device at any industrial plant or organization

Personal importance as a moderator of appraisal - emotion relationships

Master'sMASTER OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities

global, sexuality, postcolonial, Jamaica, India, South Africa, LGBTQ, South-South interaction

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities

global, sexuality, postcolonial, Jamaica, India, South Africa, LGBTQ, South-South interaction