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Degree pursued and year in program

 4th year PhD

Advisors

 Lisa Kort-Butler and Kelsy Burke

Areas of specialization

Health, Gender, Sexualities

Courses taught

 Gender in Contemporary Society; Health, Medicine and Society, Drugs and Society, Sociological Theory, Introduction to Sociology

Selected publications

Lupindo, Esihle. (2024). “We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay” - BlackQueer rural-urban migration, danger, and digital sexual desires. Journal of Communication, Culture and Critique.

Lupindo, Esihle. (2024). Sex with Strangers and the Politics of (Dangerous) Sex.

Michigan Quarterly Review

Qambela, Gcobani and Lupindo, Esihle. (2022). Pandemics, routine death, and pleasure. Agenda.

Qambela, Gcobani. and Lupindo, Esihle. (2020). Traditional rituals and plural medical systems in a pandemic. National Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Selected Presentations

Lupindo, Esihle. (2024). Migrating to be with each other: internal Queer migration in South Africa. University of the Witwatersrand.

Lupindo, Esihle. (2023). Black Queer Space-making in Contemporary South Africa. African Studies Association.

Lupindo, Esihle. (2023). Discussant for book by Siphokazi Magadla: ‘Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa’ - African Studies Association.

Lupindo, Esihle. (2021). Black South African Queer Space Making and Imagining a New World After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. African Studies Association

Lupindo, Esihle. (2020). Discussant for ‘Moonlight rift – examining rifts between presentations of Black, Gay, Male Humanity, and representations of Black, Gay, Male non-Humanity in Moonlight’. Nelson Mandela University.