Catherine Phipps

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...

"He had seldom tasted such bliss as with certain Moroccan girls, whose complete naturalness and grace and candid sensuality he described in language so simple and direct that one could visualize their slender flanks and small pointed breasts and almost sniff the odour of spices"

wrote Harold Acton.

Morocco was known for sex tourism in this period after the French Protectorate introduced Africa's largest and most exploitative red-light district in Casablanca. Every major city had colonial brothels managed by the French state

Two different friends of his note his memories of Moroccan women...

This wasn't Orwell's first time visit colonial brothels.

During his time in Burma, Orwell frequently visited the brothels in Moulmein, where one teacher had set up a brothel with three of her sixth-form students. He also wrote an "ironic" poem about paying a young "virgin" Burmese girl for sex...

Did George Orwell pay for sex in a colonial brothel in Morocco?

Orwell and his wife Eileen spent a few months living in a villa outside of Marrakech in the late 1930s. He wrote the essay "Marrakech" about daily life there, but Marrakech in the 1930s was also home to hundreds of colonial brothels...

The original female rage 😍

Hello from the archives du Maroc where a cat has walked into the reading room

More to follow

oh. my. god.

Spent the morning reading the personal file from the colonial doctor who experimented on these women, and watching his salary slowly rise.

What’s the opposite of rest in peace?

Humbled. Getting passport photos taken in Morocco and watching the woman photoshop me. Worried will be rejected at customs for not having same glowy skin and fake eyelashes.

Je me sens vivre - JLOW Mix Dalida, JLOW · Je me sens vivre (JLOW Mix) · Song · 2024

open.spotify.com/track/0679SL...

Can you have a career only mixing two artists? Probably