From Child Pledging to Child Abuse: How Girl Marriage Changed in Zimbabwe

By Diana Jeater African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism 0 comments

Attempts to ban child marriage in Southern Rhodesia reflected the Europeans’ tendency to perceive African male sexuality as excessive.

Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica

By Jill Briggs Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body 0 comments

Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.

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

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality 2 comments

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

Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Violence 0 comments

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

Teaching with Tumblr: Building a Digital Archive of Gender, Race & Empire

By Bianca Murillo Empire and Colonialism, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

I am interested in the potential of digital media as a way to engage students.

A Chile is Never Just a Chile: Food & Sex in Mexico Before & After Colonization

By Gustavo Corral Empire and Colonialism, Food and Sexuality, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

Eating and reproduction are crucial biological processes that are fraught with emotional meanings.

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

By Saheed Aderinto African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour 0 comments

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