Over the past decade, my scholarship has been interdisciplinary in nature, and has focus on gender and sexuality, and ideas of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. My deep interest in gender and sexuality was inaugurated by my honours thesis titled how race is implicated in the construction of gay identities: an inspection of Gay Pages magazine. this research project was followed by my master's degree which was a social science degree from Minnesoata with a thesis titled The historical impact of capitalist development and urbanization on gay liberation in South Africa and the United States. These research projects were the foundation on which I built my academic career. After my master's degree, I decided to pursue a doctoral degree in Cape Town, South Africa. my research project for my doctoral research was titled "The more you stretch them, the more they grow”: Same-Sex Marriage and the Wrestle with Heteronormativity. In all of these research projects, the one thread that ties them all together is my interest in the nature of post-apartheid freedom, in thinking with and through the South African Constitution, to upend legacies of slavery, colonialism, and racial domination whose effects extend into the contemporary moment. Therefore, my scholarship is engaged in the complex ways gender and sexuality are appear (or don't appear) in discussions of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid and the impact of their silence or omission on contemporary understanding of these categories. Since graduating from my PhD I have written on the intersections of sexuality, gender, and African cultural practices in post-apartheid South Africa. Some of the articles I have written focus on queer culture, delving into the queer visuals of Nakhane and Desire Marea, I have written about African masculinities, and I have also focused on the ways that queerness intersects with Xhosa cultural practices with very interesting and complicated results. Thoughout my post-graduation period I have been working on developing the concept of “queering the postcolony” by incorporating and stretching concepts such as sexuality (queerness), gender, and culture within the post-colonial/post-apartheid South African context. As move forward with my research, I am interested in expansive ideas and practices of freedom that go beyond normative, nationalist and racialised boundaries. My work is inspired by Fahmida Riaz who issues the call for us to create a new lexicon through her epic poem, "come let us create a new lexicon." My work then, can be seen a a contribution to that new lexicon.