Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought

By Durba Mitra January 21, 2020 Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour 0 comments

How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann January 16, 2020 Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific

By Emily Manktelow May 16, 2019 Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence 0 comments

A microhistory of a child sexual abuse case in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society.

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

By T.J. Tallie January 5, 2016 African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality 2 comments

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

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

By Gustavo Corral September 24, 2015 Empire and Colonialism, Food and Sexuality, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

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

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

By Onni Gust February 26, 2014 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.