Catherine Phipps
@katyphipps.bsky.social
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
‘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
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I’ll live on in how others remember me
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I’ll live on in how others remember me
🚨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....
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
September 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🚨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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 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 🌊
Working on anything to do with colonial ports, sex work or the sea? Let me know
the sea is about to become my mistress 🌊
September 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨 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 🌊
Working on anything to do with colonial ports, sex work or the sea? Let me know
the sea is about to become my mistress 🌊
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.
To include انتفاضة in Arabic but not to connect the letters?
Why you need people who know what they’re doing, not AI.
August 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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.
To include انتفاضة in Arabic but not to connect the letters?
Why you need people who know what they’re doing, not AI.
This is my all-stars round: solid celebrity status articles, beautiful research
🗃️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
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is my all-stars round: solid celebrity status articles, beautiful research
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.
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
August 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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.
newlinesmag.com/essays/franc...
Thanks to @newlinesmag.bsky.social, @erinclarebrown.bsky.social and @faisalalyafai.bsky.social for publishing this research.
Reposted by Catherine Phipps
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
newn.cam.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Can we all just stop writing for a year to let everyone catch up?
August 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Can we all just stop writing for a year to let everyone catch up?
Another day, another email signed “nest, Catherine”
August 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Another day, another email signed “nest, Catherine”
“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” 😊🙃
August 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“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” 😊🙃
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...
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...
August 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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...
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...
Hello from the archives du Maroc where a cat has walked into the reading room
More to follow
More to follow
August 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Hello from the archives du Maroc where a cat has walked into the reading room
More to follow
More to follow
Humbled. Getting passport photos taken in Morocco and watching the woman photoshop me. Worried will be rejected at customs for not having same glowy skin and fake eyelashes.
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Humbled. Getting passport photos taken in Morocco and watching the woman photoshop me. Worried will be rejected at customs for not having same glowy skin and fake eyelashes.
I need someone good at music to do a Nancy ajram Britney Spears mashup, my soul cries for it
July 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I need someone good at music to do a Nancy ajram Britney Spears mashup, my soul cries for it
The rumours are false!
The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun.
An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning
The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun.
An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning
July 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The rumours are false!
The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun.
An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning
The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun.
An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning
The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is 🔥
Dozens of paintings, obsessed with femininity, violence, power and sensuality, and most showing her as the main heroine. They show Gentileschi’s work throughout her life, not just the rape trial or her fury as a survivor
Dozens of paintings, obsessed with femininity, violence, power and sensuality, and most showing her as the main heroine. They show Gentileschi’s work throughout her life, not just the rape trial or her fury as a survivor
July 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is 🔥
Dozens of paintings, obsessed with femininity, violence, power and sensuality, and most showing her as the main heroine. They show Gentileschi’s work throughout her life, not just the rape trial or her fury as a survivor
Dozens of paintings, obsessed with femininity, violence, power and sensuality, and most showing her as the main heroine. They show Gentileschi’s work throughout her life, not just the rape trial or her fury as a survivor
Sitting in a cafe in Paris. An American couple have arrived at their Airbnb across the street, had an argument about no air conditioning, and bought three new fans from Monoprix within the space of one cafe crème.
July 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Sitting in a cafe in Paris. An American couple have arrived at their Airbnb across the street, had an argument about no air conditioning, and bought three new fans from Monoprix within the space of one cafe crème.
Controversial… I think 10 million euros is completely reasonable for this famous piece of 20th century history
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
Original Birkin bag sells for record $10 million at Paris auction
A Hermes Birkin bag, the first ever designed for Jane Birkin, sold for 8.58 million euros ($10 million) at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday, setting a handbag auction record. The collector’s piece sparked…
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250710-hermès-birkin-10-million-paris-auction
July 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Controversial… I think 10 million euros is completely reasonable for this famous piece of 20th century history
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
Reposted by Catherine Phipps
How have the Irish community in Bristol used parades as a way of exploring memory and history?
Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop....
Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop....
Parading Memories
Discover how parades are used to celebrate the Bristol Irish community through the creation of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
How have the Irish community in Bristol used parades as a way of exploring memory and history?
Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop....
Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop....
Desperate to get away from the front lines?
In WW1, some men tried to make it look as though they had venereal diseases and had unhealthy discharge. How?
By injecting condensed milk inside their penises… others purposefully bruised their penises to look ill and get out of action
In WW1, some men tried to make it look as though they had venereal diseases and had unhealthy discharge. How?
By injecting condensed milk inside their penises… others purposefully bruised their penises to look ill and get out of action
June 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Desperate to get away from the front lines?
In WW1, some men tried to make it look as though they had venereal diseases and had unhealthy discharge. How?
By injecting condensed milk inside their penises… others purposefully bruised their penises to look ill and get out of action
In WW1, some men tried to make it look as though they had venereal diseases and had unhealthy discharge. How?
By injecting condensed milk inside their penises… others purposefully bruised their penises to look ill and get out of action
“Yeah so I’m on holiday from work to do more work”
can you explain a writing retreat without sounding pathetic?
can you explain a writing retreat without sounding pathetic?
June 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Yeah so I’m on holiday from work to do more work”
can you explain a writing retreat without sounding pathetic?
can you explain a writing retreat without sounding pathetic?
The most famous brothel in Paris was owned by an Irish women
Madame Kelly, aka Alexandrine Jouannet, opened Le Chabanais in 1878 when sex work was legal in France. The brothel was known for keeping Edward VII’s sex chair and champagne bath tub
Mme Kelly famously dressed very well and smoked a LOT…
Madame Kelly, aka Alexandrine Jouannet, opened Le Chabanais in 1878 when sex work was legal in France. The brothel was known for keeping Edward VII’s sex chair and champagne bath tub
Mme Kelly famously dressed very well and smoked a LOT…
June 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The most famous brothel in Paris was owned by an Irish women
Madame Kelly, aka Alexandrine Jouannet, opened Le Chabanais in 1878 when sex work was legal in France. The brothel was known for keeping Edward VII’s sex chair and champagne bath tub
Mme Kelly famously dressed very well and smoked a LOT…
Madame Kelly, aka Alexandrine Jouannet, opened Le Chabanais in 1878 when sex work was legal in France. The brothel was known for keeping Edward VII’s sex chair and champagne bath tub
Mme Kelly famously dressed very well and smoked a LOT…
5 in the morning and writing fuelled by spite. Is this how Sylvia Plath felt?
June 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
5 in the morning and writing fuelled by spite. Is this how Sylvia Plath felt?
*reposting to irritate Medievalists*
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
*reposting to irritate Medievalists*
Reposted by Catherine Phipps
Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out:
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices
Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i
academic.oup.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out:
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...