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Catherine Phipps

@katyphipps.bsky.social

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Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Mar 20

Mixed couples torn apart by the colonial state? Arrested by colonial police? Letters written to the sultan for help? My new article on marriage visas for Moroccan soldiers and white women after WW2 in a special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘What Can They Criticise Us for, Loving Each Other Too Much?’: Visa Bans for Mixed Marriages Between Moroccan Soldiers and French Women After the Second World War

This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women a...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll live on in how others remember me

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨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....

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dm is fine

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 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 🌊

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 22

How is that even possible?!

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · Aug 22

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History-Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2024

muse.jhu.edu

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

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

newlinesmag.com

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

Research Fellowships

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 21

Jesus Christ, this is appalling

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 18

Poires dauphinoises, just like mamma used to make

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 18

Abhor the binary

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 14

Doing god’s work

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 12

Another day, another email signed “nest, Catherine”

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

“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” 😊🙃

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

"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.

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 4

The original female rage 😍

Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

More to follow

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