FROTTAGE, frictions of intimacy across the black diaspora

207pp., paperback, New York, 2019

"Frottage takes you on a journey of mutual pleasure, queer potentials, intimacy, violence, and erotic freedom through the African and Afro-diaspora. Macharia delivers a layered, intellectually expansive, and necessary critical irritation for black queer studies." zethu Matebeni, curator and co-editor of Reclaiming Afrikan

"Frottage is an important and field-changing book. One of Keguro Macharia’s great talents is to guide us to a way to understand, read, and think differently about kinship, about gender, about ‘thinghood,’ and about intimacy. Macharia is a profoundly original thinker and writer and in Frottage he renders and imagines diaspora in ways that attend beautifully to a range of world-making practices, to geo-histories and discontinuities. The final chapter, both meditation and invitation, is a gift." Christian Sharpe, author of In the Wake

Keguro Macharia is an independent scholar from Nairobi, Kenya.