Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica

By Jill Briggs Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body

Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.

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

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

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

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

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

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 Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

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