RUTH RAMSDEN-KARELSE is founder and co-convenor of the Oxford Queer Studies Network, a Research Associate at the University of Manchester’s Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, and a PhD candidate in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford where she holds the inaugural Stuart Hall Doctoral Studentship in association with
Mary Watson is from Cape Town and now lives on the west coast of Ireland. She has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, where she taught for many years. She won the Caine Prize in 2006 and writes contemporary fiction, young adult fantasy and short stories, and her
Derilene Dee Marco is a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD from the Department of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University. To date, her research has dealt with apartheid and postapartheid as a project of
Ashraf Johaardien’s (They / Them) career in the arts encompasses a range of professional and creative roles across a spectrum of disciplines. They have been associated with several South African cultural and academic institutions including the National Library of South Africa (Writers Network Coordinator), Iziko Museums (Communications Manager), the Baxter
