Queer African Cinemas

“Conceptually rich and deeply pedagogical, Queer African Cinemas models how to think about African queer worldmaking. Lindsey B. Green-Simms wrenches resistance away from heteronormative duty and national obligation to track its wayward possibilities. Resistance is no longer an exhausted term that excludes African queers, but one that centers African queer practices and freedoms. Green-Simms listens for how African queer audiences navigate representation and find succor even in hostile places. A joy to read.” - Keguro Macharia, author of Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora

“Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s compelling insights prod us to think about resistance as multilayered, incomplete, and even messy in ways that reveal how the vulnerabilities of queer life exist alongside multiple modes of survival, care, and aspirational imaginaries. Queer African Cinemas is engaging, generative, and remarkably persuasive.” - Grace A. Musila, author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder

“In Queer African Cinemas, Green-Simms offers an insightful and illuminating analysis. . . . Queer African Cinemas makes an important and necessary intervention in queer studies as it works to decenter queerness from the global north and to challenge common understandings of acceptable means of resistance, affect, and representation.” - Bruno Guaraná, Film Quarterly

“[Green-Simms’s] musings on resistance, aspiration, and resilience, among other difficult-to-define and identity-specific terms, is cultural theory at its finest. Queer African Cinemas will be impactful far beyond its range of study. Highly recommended.” - G. R. Butters Jr., Choice

"Written in clear prose and brilliantly self-reflexive in method, this sophisticated reading of queer cinematic texts deserves attention. . . . [A] must-read for those interested in queerness and film studies in Africa and beyond."

"Queer African Cinemas is crucial to anyone interested in the contingency of the present, one in which the past—the project of colonial modernity—has totally shaped today’s attitude toward sexual identity. . . . Queer African Cinemas treats queer Africans with love and care, without condescending to them. This is what happens when a scholar puts the human at the core of a study." - Shola Adenekan, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry