Submitted by Whitney Miller
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We are thrilled to announce that Professor Amanda Lock Swarr has won the 2024 Diverse Sexualities Research and Education Institute (DSREI) Professional Book Award for her book Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine (Duke University Press, 2023). The award committee praised the book as "a thought-provoking discussion of the history of medical colonialism in South Africa, exceptionally well-researched over a 20-year period and well-written." They highlighted how the book "forces us to reconsider the assumptions inherent in the medical gaze as well as our ideas about sexuality and gender."
Please join us in congratulating Professor Swarr on this remarkable achievement!