Amphibious Subjects : : Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men--known in local parlance as sasso--residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing...
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