A geography of violence against LGBTQI people

‘In an effort to locate geographies of queerphobic violence, the paper focuses on how queer men and transwomen are prone to both implicit and explicit violence in these spaces. Spaces identified included participants’ homes, immediate communities (mostly rural and township areas), public areas (such as police stations and health-care centres), roads and transport areas, shopping areas and places of worship. We found that in order to navigate these spaces, queer participants had to remould themselves both in dress and performance,’ reads a research paper co-authored by Ndumiso Ngidi, an academic and relative of slain call centre agent Spha Khoza.