Catherine Phipps

The first seminar today of the masters module I was invited to put together: "Prostitutes", "Perverts" and Pornography: Experiences of Colonial Sexuality in European Empires, 1800-2000.

Two hours of history of material cultures, gender and empire at the Pitt Rivers 😍

From Slavery in Virginia to Freedom in the North East of England How an enslaved woman fled America and found safety in the North East of England

'On the "bitter cold" Christmas Day of 1830, Mary Ann Macham arrived in North Shields, the northern English fishing port that would become her unlikely home; the endpoint of a 4,000-mile journey filled with fear, courage and a superhuman determination to be free.'

Seasonal reminder that Nick Cave looks just like The Grinch

Brothels regulated by the state and with registration cards were fundamental to the type of biopower Foucault talks about!

There were thousands across France by 1945. Does he talk about them? No!

Thinking about biopower and how bodies were managed in modern states? Don’t forget brothels!

alongside the invention of birth rates, clinics, and prisons, regulated brothels in France from 1800s and in British Empire from 1864 were a key part of the state intervention that created public health

Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3 Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.

Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue!

My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

I want JStor unwrapped…

This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.

Colonial violence has unexpected legacies… the only way I’ll finish this manuscript before Christmas is through a regime of fear
(I told my sister to slap me if it’s not done)

Babe, I think you’ve got this the wrong way round… surely it’s to decolonise Britain, the British Museum and the imperial mindset???

Feel like India already knows it’s independent and has a rich history…

The Lost Daughters of Bousbir Under French rule in the 1930s, hundreds of Moroccan girls and women were trapped in Casablanca’s red-light district

In Morocco in the 1930s, hundreds of women and girls were trapped by the French authorities inside the walls of Bousbir — Casablanca’s red-light district and a tourist destination for Europeans. @katyphipps.bsky.social uncovers their stories.

The French state trapped Moroccan women in colonial brothels, while their fathers wrote letters begging for their freedom.

Virgins were arrested, women tried to escape… Read more here

I’ll live on in how others remember me

Maintaining Islam, ‘Moroccanness’ and white privilege: social perception and experiences of mixed individuals in Morocco from the colonial era to the present This interdisciplinary article examines mixed families in Morocco from French colonial rule to the present day, focusing on experiences and perception of mixed individuals within Morocco. Our compa...

🚨new article on mixed identities in Morocco🚨 how did mixed families construct their identity and navigate discrimination in the 20th and 21st century? 🇲🇦 find out here, baby…

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dm is fine

Love. The lying media will say I’ve been receiving emails about the money I allegedly owe Oxford for two years…

🚨 New job🚨 ill be a senior research associate at Bristol this year, looking at race and religion in British colonial port cities with the Mariners project mar.ine.rs

Working on anything to do with colonial ports, sex work or the sea? Let me know

the sea is about to become my mistress 🌊

How is that even possible?!

A shame to see such poor copy editing for such a beautiful new book from some top decolonial feminists.

To include انتفاضة in Arabic but not to connect the letters?

Why you need people who know what they’re doing, not AI.

This is my all-stars round: solid celebrity status articles, beautiful research

After France Outlawed Brothels, Its Army Kept North African Women Selling Sex in Secret At the end of World War II, hundreds were trafficked to shabby, illegal camps to service soldiers waiting to be demobilized

Why did the French army send hundreds of North African women to work in illegal brothels in France?

newlinesmag.com/essays/franc...

Thanks to @newlinesmag.bsky.social, @erinclarebrown.bsky.social and @faisalalyafai.bsky.social for publishing this research.

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Jesus Christ, this is appalling

Poires dauphinoises, just like mamma used to make

Abhor the binary

Can we all just stop writing for a year to let everyone catch up?

Doing god’s work

Another day, another email signed “nest, Catherine”

“Yeah so actually the reason that I’ve published a lot is that every year I’m certain I’ll have to leave academia and not be able to write anything else” 😊🙃

Orwell's sex life was also affected by his time in colonial brothels...

After spending the night with him, one woman wrote that "he makes love Burma-Sergeant fashion, afterwards saying 'ah that’s better' before he turns over”.

At least it would have been quick for the girls in Marrakechi brothels

Orwell boasted about his experiences with Moroccan girls as a taste of exotic Orientalism.

For these girls, it would have been business as usual in the 600 brothels across Marrakech where they were often held against their will and forced to sell sex. Orwell was part of the colonial project...