ABSTRACT
This chapter examines grassroots cinematic connections and video activism between China and Africa by using Queer University as a case study. Through interviews with Queer University organisers and participants, it discusses the transnational politics and decolonial potentials underpinning these grassroots initiatives. Drawing on Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s critical term ‘minor transnationalism’, the chapter studies the transnational queer grassroots collaborations in the Global South, and, in doing so, unravel the hopes, promises, and precariousness of the emerging people-to-people exchanges taking place in the Global South. Queer University is a participatory community video production programme run by the Beijing Gender Health Education Institute (BGHEI). BGHEI hosts a community webcast website called Queer Comrades. Queer University demonstrates the importance of self-representation in media and cultural politics. On 3–9 March 2017, jointly organised by BGHEI and Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, the first Queer University workshop in Africa took place in Harare, Zimbabwe.
