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The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster May 29, 2014 Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 2 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

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

By Onni Gust January 6, 2014 Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ 10 comments

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