Chinese ‘tongzhi’ renounce Western LGBT politic and reclaim an indigenous “queer” identity.
Empire and Colonialism
The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa
Class shame hinging upon perceived sexual immorality is an often overlooked element of anti-colonial/apartheid politics in South Africa.
From Child Pledging to Child Abuse: How Girl Marriage Changed in Zimbabwe
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
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
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
The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.
Recent Posts
(Safe) sex, leather, and zines: Lisbon’s GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism
Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities
The ‘Chosen Family’ Dinner: A non-normative insight into queer homemaking
“Homosexual Hearers” and Queer Musicality in Xavier Mayne’s The Intersexes (1909)
Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census