New Malaysia Should Find “Right Path” on LGBT Rights
“Azim” (a pseudonym), age 27, who attended a Mukhayyam programme in December 2017 facilitated by the Islamic department in Kedah state, said that facilitators sought to stoke fears that LGBT people would go to Hell if they did not repent. “To make us change,” he said, “they remind us about death.
Theresa May “Deeply Regrets” Colonial Anti-LGBT Laws
As colonial-era sodomy laws fall and organizations like the Commonwealth Equality Network challenge inequality based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Commonwealth leaders should take action to stop human rights abuses against LGBT people.
The Queen’s Daughters
White, European prostitutes required different forms of regulation based on their ‘notoriety’ and ‘affluence’, and therefore highlighted actual variety of prostitution that existed in settings that might otherwise be similar. More affluent white prostitutes make for more regulable and legible liberal subjects, fundamentally fracturing the concept of caste-based, hereditary prostitution in India in a way that Brahmin, Muslim and even Afghan prostitutes cannot access. In materials like Andrew and Bushnell’s The Queen’s Daughters, there is a charging of the plight of white prostitutes that turns imperial, white supremacist valuation of whiteness into a tool for deconstruction of state-mandated regulation of sexual slavery.