Trans(forming) Archives: Speculative Biographies of Ethiopians Between and Beyond Genders.
Through a speculative reading of crime reports from the 1960 and '70s, this article grapples with the way in which Ethiopians who refuse to be fixed within gender binaries were introduced to readers as social problems. Considering the violence gender-non-conforming people are subjected to – includin...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 81; no. 3/4; pp. 340 - 354 |
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Sep-Dec2022
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