When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors

By Paula Akpan NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The stories of African queens and warriors who were celebrated and revered before colonising powers took hold.

Ali in Biskra: Sex Tourism, Algeria 1895

By Padraig Rooney Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

North Africa already had a reputation for loose—or different—morals, for those in the know, underwritten by the exploitation of French colonialism.

Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, United Kingdom

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

By Jessica Hinchy Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

For many colonial officials, Hijras were not only a danger to ‘public morals’, but also a threat to colonial political authority.

Intimate Interventions: Global Histories of Sexuality and Colonialism

By Chelsea Schields Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

With thirty-one contributions spanning colonized contexts across the world, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism documents the interventions into reproductive and sexual lives that upheld colonial projects.

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality

NOTCHES’ commitment in working toward an anti-racist history of sexuality.