Subjects without history? Sexual citizenship, queer temporality, and postcoloniality in Mozambique
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyses the relationships among queer histories, minority rights, temporal regimes and the promise of sexual citizenship in contemporary Mozambique. It critiques the dominant and conservative view that LGBTIQ+ Africans are “subjects without history,” or “out of time,” to use Rahul Rao’s influential phrasing. Based on archival and oral history research, the article argues that LGBTIQ+ Africans do not necessarily fit in the temporality of the nation but rather live in constant friction and negotiation with it, sometimes insisting on their inclusion in the official history, sometimes creating their own story and imaginations of the past. By comparatively analysing two historical moments – the revolutionary post-independence period, from the mid- to late 1970s, and the “decriminalisation” of homosexuality, in 2015 – the article advances a queer critique of national historiography, gesturing to the possibility of (and perhaps the need for) a plural queer memory for Mozambique.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".