The following three contributions constitute this issue's JAH Forum. This format aims is to spark wide-ranging discussions within the journal and to encourage debate with our colleagues outside of African history on significant trends and cutting-edge developments in dynamic subfields of African history. Each Forum consists of two or more essays on a topic of broad interest within African history and beyond. When inviting contributions, the JAH editors ask authors to discuss the proposed topic from their own unique perspectives while providing some assessment of existing scholarship – both historical and interdisciplinary – and some suggestion of where future studies might or should be heading. For this JAH Forum on Gender and Sexuality, we also asked Nakanyike B. Musisi, Rudolf P. Gaudio, and Nancy Rose Hunt to consider what kinds of inter-disciplinary approaches might further enrich this subfield, and to discuss how increasing international and national political attention to issues of gender, sexuality, and reproduction has shaped the development of this scholarship, for either better or worse. We are excited to share the varied and insightful perspectives showcased here.