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

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

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

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 3 comments

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

Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India

By Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ 11 comments

Nineteenth-century British imperial imaginaries took great delight in expressing the terror of, and a morbid fascination with, hijra bodies.