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Ruth Ramsden-Karelse Towards a Genealogy of Moffie: Troubling the Binary Model of Understanding either Homosexuality or Homophobia as Un-African
Customarily a pejorative marker for individuals read as effeminate men, the Southern African word moffie has been somewhat reclaimed over the past few decades. Foregrounding moffie’s predominance in relation to formerly classified-‘coloured’ communities, this chapter sketches an alternate genealogy in relation to two twentieth-century ‘scenes’ which underscore the misleading nature of the debate about what is ‘un-African’ — a debate that limits possible answers to ‘homosexuality’ or ‘homophobia’.
2025. moffie; genealogy; South Africa; gender; queer; coloured; apartheid