Accidental Queer

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Since the 1990s Marc Epprecht has helped lay the groundwork for critical masculinity and African queer studies with such publications as the award-winning Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa. Here he steps outside of the academic comfort zone with a mix of story-telling and reflection on his personal experiences motivations and methodological and ethical challenges through research and teaching on diverse topics encountered along the way: African women's history homosexuality /homophobia environmental history HIV / AIDS human rights and tourism. A central concern is to understand how masculinities have been constructed and contested within disordered gender race class and other relations and to wonder how the many associated harms might be fruitfully addressed at this moment of multiple existential crises. Understanding today's hegemonic masculinity as an artefact of colonialism and racial capitalism that is tenaciously reproduced through the fantasy of endless economic growth he invites men to constructively engage with African feminism decolonization and degrowth theory.</span></p>