Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 2

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity

Part 2 of a roundtable on what global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control can tell us about our white supremacist present

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.

Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.

Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion

By Nora Jaffary Latin American Sexualities

In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.

Sex Education Battleground in Mexico

By Melanie Huska Latin American Sexualities

Sex education in Mexico remains a battlefield for struggle between the state and Catholics over moral jurisdiction.

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.