ABSTRACT

In the broader context of higher education, queer and gay faculty are increasingly visible, yet they are also relatively quiet regarding the assemblages of their identity on the processes of becoming faculty. In authoring our assemblages of coming to be Afrikaner and white and queer and gay as well as faculty, we attempt to narrate our multiplicities as polyphonic in the context of the South African and African higher education. We use new materialism as heuristic lense to voice/perform the complexities of our (dis)comfort, our complicities, and lived liminality as faculty. As such, in our narratives and responses to each other’s narratives, we not only account for the cumulative force of the materiality of historical and social events and discourses on our identities and practices of self but also accept the (im)possibility of finding equilibrium.

摘要

在更广泛的高等教育背景下，酷儿和同性恋教师越来越明显，但他们在成为教师过程中的身份组合方面也相对安静。在创作我们成为南非白人、白人、酷儿和同性恋以及教师的组合时，我们试图在南非和非洲高等教育的背景下将我们的多样性描述为复调。我们使用新唯物主义作为启发式镜头来表达/表现我们的（不）舒适感、我们的共犯和作为教师的生活极限的复杂性。因此，在我们的叙述和对彼此叙述的反应中，我们不仅考虑了历史和社会事件以及关于我们的身份和自我实践的话语的物质性的累积力量，而且还接受（不可能）找到平衡的可能性。