I hold PhD in Sociology, and I am a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a focus on gender and sexualities, on how these categories must be linked to ideas of freedom in post-apartheid South Africa. I am interested 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. Thus, my scholarship is engaged in the complex ways gender and sexuality are omitted, appear, and/or erased in discussions on the legacies of colonialism and apartheid and the impact of this ommision, appearance, and/or erasure on contemporary understanding of these categories. To this end, I have written on the intersections of sexuality, gender, and African cultural practices in post-apartheid South Africa, working with 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. I am interested in expansive ideas and practices of freedom that go beyond normative, nationalist and racialised boundaries. My work echoes the call issued by Fahmida Riaz in her epic poem, "come let us create a new lexicon." 

SELECTED  WORKS

Edited Collections 

    Published Book Reviews 

    "and I, a newly evolved fish" - Exhibition and Seminar 

      Special Edited Collection: Decolonising The Neoliberal University 

  Published Journal Articles  

 Public Engagements 

Get in touch at: lscott@uwc.ac.za