Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

By Julie Peakman Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism 0 comments

A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality 2 comments

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

Teaching with Tumblr: Building a Digital Archive of Gender, Race & Empire

By Bianca Murillo Empire and Colonialism, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

I am interested in the potential of digital media as a way to engage students.

Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"

By Onni Gust African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism 5 comments

Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 3 comments

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

"Call me Kuchu": history, homophobia and the burden of the past

By Onni Gust African Sexualities, LGBTQ 5 comments

Sunday 26th January 2014 marked three years since the murder of David Kato.

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

By Onni Gust 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.