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Inventing Sexuality | Ben Miller & Amardeep Singh Dhillon

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The Evolution of Homosexuality in the British Empire

Amma, I was wondering if you could help us unravel a little bit about how the sense of heterosexuality of this kind of white, coherent, continent, proper normal sexuality gets articulated and evolved through the British Imperial project. There's an idea that like pre-colonialism actually, all of these supposedly non-colonized and free nations were full of like queer and trans people who were having a great time. And then the British Empire arrived and suddenly it's outlawed,. which is just really infuriatingActually because in much the same ways that the structures that produce competing and at times, confluencing on the standings of sexuality are happening in Britain and across the Western world. Those are

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