The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa. Issue 3 (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bao, Hongwei
• Other Names: Lim Tania guest-editor.; Lee Terence guest-editor.; Zhang Weiyu guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Global media and China. Volume 5:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 294
• Page End: 318
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: Africa -- China -- film -- Global South -- minor transnationalism -- queer -- Queer University; Mass media -- China -- Periodicals; Communication, International -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Mass media and culture -- China -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; 302.230951
• DOI: 10.1177/2059436420949985
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2059-4364

Abstract

In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video production program between Chinese and African queer filmmakers and activists, as a case study. Through interviews with Queer University organizers and participants, I discuss the transnational politics and decolonial potentials underpinning these grassroots initiatives. Drawing on Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih's critical term "minor transnationalism, " I study transnational queer grassroots collaborations in the Global South, and, in doing so, unravel the hopes, promises, and precariousness of emerging people-to-people exchanges taking place in the Global South.