The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.

Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.

Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

By Sarah Emily Duff African Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity

The purpose of sex education for most of the century was conservative.

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By Saheed Aderinto African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”

Umutoni: Why Histories of African Homosexualities Matter

By Sarah Watkins African Sexualities, LGBTQ

Same-sex loving and desiring people have long existed in Africa, and will continue to do so.

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.

"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.