Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho's Daughters out in Africa

Thinking through lesbian rape

A(5,3,46=60*,:-9644@166 Last year, I also had the opportunity to interview a perpetrator of lesbophobic hate crime, a rapist. He gave me much sought-after insight into what motivated his, and perhaps any rapist’s, hate crime. This rare exchange between a black lesbian (and one time potential target of his rage) and a man who made the conscious decision to control lesbian women through rape was not lost on either of us, despite the unplanned and spontaneous nature of our exchange. The following is what “Xolani” (pseudonym) confessed   A(5,3,4