The Intimacies of Revolution: Anticolonialism and Sexual Politics in the Dutch Caribbean

This week, we dive into a lesser known corner of trans-Atlantic colonialism with Dr. Chelsea Schields, a professor of history. She talks about her research on leftist anticolonial movements in the Dutch Caribbean, and how they imagined sexual politics and liberation as a part of the revolution. Postcolonial activists of the Dutch Caribbean wrote about issues of prostitution and reproductive rights, and argued that women's sexual freedom as well as LGBT equality were a key part of dismantling imperialist control of the islands. Find out more at: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6440 https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3025&context=gc_etds https://uci.academia.edu/ChelseaSchields https://www.academia.edu/39851248/Eros_against_empire_Visions_of_erotic_freedom_in_archives_of_decolonisation Our intro song was If I Had a Dime by David Ryan Harris.