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  • Break Up

    Posted: July 12, 2009, 11:00 am by keguro
    Dear . . ., You have begun to annoy me. You are everywhere. You are indiscriminate. You allow yourself to be used too much and too often. . . ., when we started this journey I loved your coyness, your knowingness, your wink-nudge-titter as much as I loved your cluelessness, your endless shrug, those tiny spaces [...]

  • Obama in Ghana

    Posted: July 10, 2009, 12:36 am by keguro
    Obama’s trip to Ghana raises fascinating questions about diaspora as a mode of affiliation, about the kinds of choosing we must undertake to forge connections across histories, and also about the kinds of histories we make available as sites for identification. Ghana is, of course, one of the prime centers for such affiliations, if for [...]

  • Un-Blogging

    Posted: July 9, 2009, 11:12 pm by keguro
    I have been trying very hard not to blog about Kenyan politics, Michael Jackson, James Bond, Agatha Christie, trash romance, cilantro and rosemary, the weather, ongoing research projects, visits to the archive, queer politics, queer sex, queer celibacy, hot daddies, Kenyan condoms, avocadoes, shades of brown, flowers and gardens, anti-intellectualism, Kenyan education, U.S. education, “the” [...]

  • femiplan?

    Posted: July 3, 2009, 9:00 pm by keguro
    Dear Kenyan Heterosexuals, Please explain the difference between femiplan family planning condoms for men and “regular” condoms? What is the femiplan secret? Will it hurt gay men? Sincerely, Confused Queer

  • Currently Reading: My Life in Prison

    Posted: July 3, 2009, 2:51 pm by keguro
    Salim Abdullah had been in that damn place [Mathare Hospital] for so long that he had forgotten the difference between a man and a woman. In his life, I guess, he had laid more men than women. If you did not know how to handle him, you could land in his trap. He had the [...]

  • “Was” Racist

    Posted: July 2, 2009, 11:08 am by keguro
    What is the shelf-life of a racist text? Is there a point when it ceases to be racist? If there is such a point, how is it related to pedagogy? I am not, here, thinking of those texts whose racism has to be explained because it’s subtle or incidental. Nor am I really thinking of [...]
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