Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.
Tag: sex work
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2
How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?
Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa
The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.
“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto
Interview by Pat Omoregie Saheed Aderinto’s When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (Illinois, 2015), explores tensions in colonial Nigeria through the lens of a struggle over how to control and regulate prostitution. Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of […]
365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary
It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014, with the support of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, we launched a new blog with the goal of getting folks inside and outside the academy to think critically about histories of sex and sexuality across […]
Valentine’s as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe)
Julia Laite The only thing that I like about Valentine’s Day is the fact that it comes along with my family’s tradition of making a chocolate torte that is basically nothing but butter, eggs, ground almonds, and sugar, which I eat for breakfast.[1] Growing up in Canada, Valentine’s was a […]
Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson
Julia Laite Ok, so I know that the Sinead/Miley thing is old news, lying (by internet standards) in the distant past of November, 2013. You can feel free to remind yourself of it here. But seeing as one of my major points is about the repetitive nature of debates over […]