“Out of Africa”

This chapter applies intersectionality and feminist decolonial theories to build on the critical reflexive approach outlined in this book. This historically informed approach is used to interrogate how vectors of power such as race, class, gender, and sexuality operated together within the interviews to shape the meanings produced there. It provides excerpts from interviews that demonstrate how men deployed racist and colonial discourses to manage and defend against the stigma associated with sex work in South Africa and reflects on how the researcher was implicated in the reproducing of these colonial discourses.