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The homophobic legacies of British colonialism with Ibtisam Ahmed

EPISODE · Nov 6, 2020 · 35 MIN

The homophobic legacies of British colonialism with Ibtisam Ahmed

from Queer Recollections · host Will Hecker

Ibtisam Ahmed is a queer Bangladeshi activist and academic whose work reveals the mechanisms and homophobia of British colonialism. Ibtisam speaks to Queer Recollections about Section 377, an anti-gay law imposed in South Asia under British rule, the legacies this law has left behind, and the state of modern-day LGBT activism in Bangladesh. 

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