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- U.S.-based academics who do not thoroughly engage the impact of globalization and U.S. imperialism on the transnational ﬂows of racialized sexuality.

-how does having a queer teacher filter the content of the course from a queer lens, how and why is that important in academia?

personal experiences are magnified in the classroom according to Bryant Keith Alexander, experiences at the site of the body are inherently connected to the content reviewed in the classroom /academic settings, we cannot and should not remove experiences with logic because the personal is political

Queer teachers represent and reject the bigotry spewed by students toward bodies they perceive as queer which is why it is important to show up in the classroom fully

Intersectionality- Black queerness being seen as antithesis to Black identity by heterosexual Black people

classroom is a space to challenge preconceived notions of identity

Lead:

"and other fields by examining the identity, lives, history, and perception of queer individuals.

Studies centering around queerness (?) originated in the 1970s with the publication of several "seminal works of gay history. -WHO:

organization doesn't make sense

Queer African Studies

Queer in Africa makes critical advances in scholarship by providing context for African perspectives of non-heterosexual identities while suggesting queer studies be re-evaluated under the context of globalization. The book includes contributions from Brian Okollan and Julias Kaggwa, whose scholarship addresses the lack of knowledge concerning transgender and intersex identities.

Cultural perspectives - supposed dichotomy between African-ness and queerness

perverse presentism-