Barnard-Naudé, JacoDe Vos, Pierre2016-06-212016-06-212014Barnard-Naude, J., & De Vos, P. (2014). These queer gardens: a South African story. Acta Academica: Law as a humanities discipline: transformative potential and political limits, 46(3), 134-150.0587-2405 (print)2415-0479 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3138Two white male Afrikaans gay academics decide to respond to a call for papers to be presented at a conference with the theme “Gardens of justice” in Stockholm, Sweden in 2012. In the course of their attempt to co-author an academic paper on the history of the struggle for sexual minority freedom in South Africa, they are confronted by their own histories, contradictions, literary influences and context - confrontations that ultimately mirror the instability of subjectivity and the valences of a critically queer positionality in post-apartheid South Africa.enSexual minoritiesPost-apartheid South AfricaGay menThese queer gardens: a South African storyArticleUniversity of the Free State