Resources on Precolonial Sexualities, Gender and Relationship Structures

Critical Thinkers

• Kim TallBear - the critical polyamorist -http://www.criticalpolyamorist.com/
• Alok Vaid Menon - https://www.alokvmenon.com/about

Websites

• Gender-variant identities worldwide - https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Gender-variant_identities_worldwide

•  A map of gender-diverse cultures https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/ 

Articles

• I Feel Rage And Grief That The Trauma Of Colonisation Erased The Queerness In Our History - Sunanda Jalote https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2020/05/colonisation-and-queerness-in-indi

• How colonialism affects sexuality - By Almaz Ohene https://feeld.co/blog/feeld-guides/how-colonialism-affects-sexuality

• How homosexuality became a crime in the Middle East - https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/06/06/how-homosexuality-became-a-crime-in-the-middle-east 
• African sexuality and the legacy of imported homophobia - https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/african-sexuality-and-legacy-imported-homophobia

• 377: The British colonial law that left an anti-LGBTQ legacy in Asia - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57606847 

• Monogamy as  a western invention https://bigthink.com/articles/monogamy-as-a-western-invention/ 

Academic Articles

• Decolonizing the Sodomite by Michael J. Horswell https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/709690

• Gender Dimension of Law, Colonialism and Inheritance in East Africa: - Kenyan Women’s Experiences - https://www.jstor.org/stable/43239047 

• Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation https://www.e-ir.info/2019/08/20/indigenous-sexualities-resisting-conquest-and-translation/