Africa at Noon: How Nonnormative Gender and Sexuality Became a Target of Violent Political Repression

Transgressors of gender and sexuality norms have been the targets of violent political repression around the world seemingly since the establishment of the state itself. This project contributes a new methodological approach, theory, and empirical analysis to answer the question, what drives persistent, pervasive, and violent political repression of people of nonnormative gender and sexuality?