• Health Systems, Policy and Gender Equity in South Africa
• Structural Violence in the Context of Trans Lives
• Transgender Health

• Critical Narrative and Counter-storying Methodologies
• Decolonial Trans* Feminism
• Critical Trans Politics

Publications

• Shabalala, S. B., & Campbell, M. (2025). The economic cost of the gender binary: A critical inquiry into patterns of economic inclusion and exclusion among trans women in South Africa. Social Inclusion, 13.
• Shabalala, S. B., & Campbell, M. (2024). Unpacking epistemic genderism: An investigation of trans women’s encounters with the gender binary within South African knowledge systems—“What are you doing here? You are not supposed to be here!”. Journal of Research in Gender Studies, 14(1), 34–57.
• Shabalala, S. B., Boonzaier, F., & Chirape, S. (2023). Challenging ciscentric feminist margins: A South African study on gender-based violence in the lives of Black trans women. Psychology in Society.
• Shabalala, S. B., & Campbell, M. (2023). The complexities of trans women’s access to healthcare in South Africa: Moving health systems beyond the gender binary towards gender equity. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1), Article 231. https://doi.org/xxxxx (Add DOI if required; otherwise APA allows omission.)

Under Review

• Shabalala, S., Chirape, S., & Boonzaier, F. (under review). “They sexualise us to a point where it turns into violence”: Unpacking the culture of sexual violence against Black trans women in the South African context. Violence Against Women.

• Shabalala, S. B. (2022). Patterns of inclusion and exclusion among trans women in South Africa: A critical narrative inquiry. Paper presented at the 26th Congress of the Psychological Society of South Africa, South Africa.

• Doctoral Fellow, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (2025–2027)
• Honorary Mention, Psychological Society of South Africa (2023)

(Feminism & Psychology Division, in collaboration with the Sexuality & Gender Division) — awarded for the paper “Patterns of inclusion and exclusion among trans women in South Africa.”

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• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5978-1268