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Sex and Sexuality in South Asia: How Colonization Tamed Cultural Fluidity

“British colonialism secured the permanence of monogamous heteronormativity and criminalized all other forms of livelihood through both legislation and language. These constructed notions of sex and sexuality offered a vocabulary for delineating and policing boundaries between communities and uplifting certain people at the expense of others – the very premise of white supremacy.”

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