Tag: Empire

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

By Bianca Murillo September 29, 2015 Digital Humanities 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 November 20, 2014 African Sexualities 2 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 May 29, 2014 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 2 comments

Agnes Arnold-Forster In 1991, the Progressive Liberal Party government amended the Bahamas’ Sexual Offences Act, decriminalising “buggery” and other same-sex sexual acts in private. Over twenty years later the Bahamas still remains ahead of the majority of its Caribbean neighbours. Male-male sexual activity continues to be illegal in eleven Caribbean nations. […]

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

By Onni Gust February 7, 2014 African Sexualities, LGBTQ 0 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 January 6, 2014 LGBTQ 8 comments

Onni Gust Nineteenth-century British travel writers and colonial officials rarely passed on the opportunity to prefix some derogatory hyperbole to the word ‘eunuch.’ Frequently they offered extensive defamation, referring to eunuchs as “the vilest and most polluted beings” and commenting on the “revolting” practices that they imagined, but could rarely […]