Curiosity Issue 13

SAME-SEXUALITY PAST AND PRESENT People have engaged in same-sex relationships for centuries but religion rendered the practice taboo and fuelled homophobia that activists continue to challenge, with some successes, but the battle persists. SHAUN SMILLIE

This San Bushmen painting dating back from at least two thousand years ago, appears to depict three males engaged in intercrural (between the legs) intercourse. Adapted by Shivan Parusnath, originally from Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa, by Marc Epprecht.

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Curiosity Issue 13

Published on Feb 10, 2022

Curiosity

The 13th issue of Curiosity, Wits University’s research magazine, is themed: #Gender. The way we choose to identify ourselves in the 21st Century provokes questions and demands interrogation to ensure a more equitable and tolerant society. At Wits, which celebrates 100 years of research excellence in 2022, we proudly advance knowledge that is responsive to a new generation who claim their unique identity as complex individuals who live and love across a spectrum. Read about our research that relates to gender, feminism, masculinity, sex, sexual identity and sexual health. The cake on the cover depicts the colours of the non-binary flag and challenges the trend of the gender reveal party. Produced by Wits Communications, Curios.ty is a print and digital magazine that tells the stories of pioneering research through the voices of the talented researchers, students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Articles inside

Curiosity Issue 13

Articles inside

Towards gender parity in academic leadership

COLUMN

Philanthropy’s feminist future

Performing masculinity in Men’s Res

Real men lift others up and don't put them down

Big Data to combat gender crime?

Let’s talk about sex (and health please

Monstrous males/femme fatales

PROFILE

An illegal failure of our criminal justice system

Fractured Histories

Same-sexuality past and present

Monetising Pride

Parenting in the City

Not all are equal in the eyes of science

FEATURE

The knife between her thighs

Levelling the playing fields

Older people do bonk

The birds, the bees, and finding Nemo’s

The politics of a woman’s body