feminism, transnational feminist links and new questions for feminist research in Africa. She concludes that 'the iterations of global feminist epistemologies across Africa and diaspora have led to exemplary post-independence historical studies that demystify the manifestations of gender and sexuality in African communities around the globe'. While gendering the African diaspora is a project yet to be fully explored and remains a vibrant area of inquiry, work tentatively pursuing these questions has been carried out, including that done by Tina Campt and Deborah A. Thomas in Gendering diaspora: transnational feminism, diaspora and its hegemonies (2008).  
An important new strand of scholarship complicating conventional gender distinctions and the normatively heterosexual vision of sexuality is captured in Black/queer/diaspora at the current conjuncture by Jafari S. Allen, an editor of the special issue on the diaspora of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and in Thomas Glave's Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles (2008). Allen's 'Intellectual genealogies of black/queer/diaspora studies' asserts very early that 'while actual migration, whether forced, chosen or coerced, continues to be a major factor in making the black world, the diaspora is so deeply constitutive of the fabric of blackness that it is also experienced among individuals who will never leave their own town, but who nevertheless powerfully imagine their own black/queer "other" identity'. Sokari Ekine's and Hakima Abbas' Queer African Reader (2013) provides the continental side of a conversation on this issue with African diasporan writers in the Americas. Thus, the black queer diaspora constitutes an important strand of contemporary African diaspora scholarship. Allen provides both genealogical matrices and current inflections that define black queer subjectivity and futurity.