Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"

By Onni Gust African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.

“Cow protection or Gay protection?” LGBT rights, “Hindu” tradition and the Indian elections

By Onni Gust LGBTQ

Gender and sexuality has had an important role in recent public debates in India.

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

The legacy of imperial Victorian sexual mores continue to haunt the lives of gay people in India and large parts of former British colonies.

What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?

By Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Robert Baden-Powell, Cecil Rhodes and Lawrence of Arabia have three things in common.

"Call me Kuchu": history, homophobia and the burden of the past

By Onni Gust African Sexualities, LGBTQ

Sunday 26th January 2014 marked three years since the murder of David Kato.

Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India

By Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

Nineteenth-century British imperial imaginaries took great delight in expressing the terror of, and a morbid fascination with, hijra bodies.