Jessica Hinchy writes on how colonial officials sought to eliminate and ‘fix’ the gender identity of ‘Hijras’, who are often termed ‘transgender’, and the contemporary resonance of this process.
Roundtable
‘Archives of Feeling’: Matt Cook on the AIDS crisis in Britain, c.1987
‘Archives of feeling’ are fundamental to our understanding of intersecting social and intimate lives – past and present.
El Otro: A Homosexual Liberation Paper from Colombia
Homosexuals needed to communicate, they needed to debate and, most important of all, they needed to organize.
‘Fallen Women’ at the Foundling Museum
In ‘Fallen Women,’ an exhibition held at the Foundling Museum, curators attempted, rather ambitiously, to explore this depiction of fallen women in period art.
What is the history of sexuality?
‘What is the History of Sexuality?’ at Birkbeck brought together doctoral students from across the world, and was an opportunity for their innovative research to be critiqued and developed through discussion with scholars in the field.
Roundtable: Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen
Deborah Cohen’s relentlessly compelling book Family Secrets unravels a complex and tangled history of how privacy, secrecy, and shame colluded and collided in the making of modern British family life
Roundtable: David Vincent
Roundtable discussion by David Vincent
