Amphibious Subjects : Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men—known in local parlance as sasso—residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Gha...
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2022
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