During the height of COVID restrictions in 2020 a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B.  Their intention was to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa, and the particular ways that the continuation of apartheid urban planning created disproportionate vulnerabilities for Black queer folk in Cape Town.  In this paper I will consider the political implications of joining queerness with the land question in post apartheid South Africa through direct political action and performance.

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January 26, 2022 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (PDT)

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