The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa

Bao, Hongwei

Abstract

In this chapter, I examine grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by using Queer University as a case study. Through semi-structured online interviews with some Queer University organisers and participants in 2020, in tandem with textural analysis of the videos produced during the workshop, I discuss the transnational politics and decolonial potentials underpinning these grassroots initiatives. Drawing on Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih (2005)’s critical term ‘minor transnationalism’, I explore the hopes and promises of emerging people-to-people exchanges taking place in the Global South.

Citation

Bao, H. (2025). The Queer Global South: Transnational Video Activism Between China and Africa. In H. Bao, & D. H. Mutibwa (Eds.), Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture. Routledge

• Publication Date: Feb 18, 2025
• Deposit Date: Nov 15, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 19, 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture
• Chapter Number: 11
• ISBN: 9781032948362
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/41953088
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• Contract Date: Sep 30, 2024