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.”

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

By Onni Gust African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism 5 comments

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

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 3 comments

Both anti-discrimination and pro-gay activists appeal to features of a pre-colonial past.

The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities

By T.J. Tallie Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

It is a curious and powerful discursive move to link the murder of hundreds of people in Nigeria to the vaguely described suffering of British queer people.

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

By Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ 0 comments

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