”As a medical anthropologist, Stella Nyanzi's scholarship explored questions of sexual and reproductive health, particularly as they relate to the stigmatization of youth, women, and sexual minorities within the Uganda context. Her work today is widely recognized as groundbreaking for shedding light on homosexuality and queer African identities, a topic long considered culturally taboo and thus challenging to research. Consequently, Nyanzi’s scholarship was always intertwined with her activism in support of queer communities: her work sought to reclaim these communities as part of the country’s history (as opposed to a common argument of them being a foreign import); to challenge reified 'African' sexual identities; and to oppose the repressive legal, medical, and cultural practices that these dominant discourses sustain.”