On 18 August 2026, I presented my PhD scholarship online for Sol Plaatje University. In this seminar, I explored how mobility shapes the everyday lives, identities and experiences of sex workers. The presentation examined mobility as critical to...
Yingwana, N. (2025). Sex Work in Africa. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. . Abstract:Sex work in Africa is shaped by complex intersections of gender, sexuality, labour, migration, colonialism, law...
Yingwana, N. (2022). Queering Sex Work and Mobility. Anti-Trafficking Review, (19), 66–86. . [OPEN ACCESS download here] Abstract:This paper explores the intersections of sex work, mobility, and gendered sexualities through a queer lens. It is based...
Yingwana, N. (2022). Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies. In A. Bezuidenhout, S. Mnwana & K. Von Holdt. (Eds.) Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South, pp. 144–170. Bristol...
Yingwana, N. and Vidima, N. (2022). Reading in-between the sheets: In conversation about SWEAT’s #SayHerName. In N. Falkof, N., Phadke, S., & Roy, S. (Eds.) Intimacy and Injury, pp. 76–101. Manchester University Press. DOI: . Abstract:Sex...
Today I presented a paper titled ‘Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) in Sex Work Studies’ at the International Conference on Gender Studies in Africa #ICGSA, currently being hosted by Makerere University ; session 6G.1 Gender...
On 18 May 2021 I presented some of the academic work I’ve done on #sexwork and #migration at this #CharlotteMaxeke webinar hosted by The Book Stokvel: ;. Even though I was officially representing the African Centre for Migration & Society...
As part of the Count Me In!* initiative, the Counting Sex Workers In! campaign ran from October 26 to November 10, 2020. The campaign shone a spotlight on sex worker-led advocacy by raising the voices of sex workers of all...
In this week’s edition of the Power Talk Academic Digest show, Aldrin Sampear speaks to maHp/ACMS doctoral researcher Ntokozo Yingwana about her Masters research that investigates and answers the question: ‘What does it mean to...
Sex work can simply be understood as the exchange of sexual services for some form of monetary value. More officially, UNAIDS (2001) defines sex work as “any agreement between two or more persons in which the objective is exclusively limited to the...
