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/...
Reposted by Catherine Phipps
'On the "bitter cold" Christmas Day of 1830, Mary Ann Macham arrived in North Shields, the northern English fishing port that would become her unlikely home; the endpoint of a 4,000-mile journey filled with fear, courage and a superhuman determination to be free.'
From Slavery in Virginia to Freedom in the North East of England
How an enslaved woman fled America and found safety in the North East of England
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'On the "bitter cold" Christmas Day of 1830, Mary Ann Macham arrived in North Shields, the northern English fishing port that would become her unlikely home; the endpoint of a 4,000-mile journey filled with fear, courage and a superhuman determination to be free.'
Seasonal reminder that Nick Cave looks just like The Grinch
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Seasonal reminder that Nick Cave looks just like The Grinch
Thinking about biopower and how bodies were managed in modern states? Don’t forget brothels!
alongside the invention of birth rates, clinics, and prisons, regulated brothels in France from 1800s and in British Empire from 1864 were a key part of the state intervention that created public health
alongside the invention of birth rates, clinics, and prisons, regulated brothels in France from 1800s and in British Empire from 1864 were a key part of the state intervention that created public health
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Thinking about biopower and how bodies were managed in modern states? Don’t forget brothels!
alongside the invention of birth rates, clinics, and prisons, regulated brothels in France from 1800s and in British Empire from 1864 were a key part of the state intervention that created public health
alongside the invention of birth rates, clinics, and prisons, regulated brothels in France from 1800s and in British Empire from 1864 were a key part of the state intervention that created public health
Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue!
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue!
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
I want JStor unwrapped…
This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.
This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.
December 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I want JStor unwrapped…
This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.
This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.
Colonial violence has unexpected legacies… the only way I’ll finish this manuscript before Christmas is through a regime of fear
(I told my sister to slap me if it’s not done)
(I told my sister to slap me if it’s not done)
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Colonial violence has unexpected legacies… the only way I’ll finish this manuscript before Christmas is through a regime of fear
(I told my sister to slap me if it’s not done)
(I told my sister to slap me if it’s not done)
Babe, I think you’ve got this the wrong way round… surely it’s to decolonise Britain, the British Museum and the imperial mindset???
Feel like India already knows it’s independent and has a rich history…
Feel like India already knows it’s independent and has a rich history…
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Babe, I think you’ve got this the wrong way round… surely it’s to decolonise Britain, the British Museum and the imperial mindset???
Feel like India already knows it’s independent and has a rich history…
Feel like India already knows it’s independent and has a rich history…
Reposted by Catherine Phipps
In Morocco in the 1930s, hundreds of women and girls were trapped by the French authorities inside the walls of Bousbir — Casablanca’s red-light district and a tourist destination for Europeans. @katyphipps.bsky.social uncovers their stories.
The Lost Daughters of Bousbir
Under French rule in the 1930s, hundreds of Moroccan girls and women were trapped in Casablanca’s red-light district
newlinesmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In Morocco in the 1930s, hundreds of women and girls were trapped by the French authorities inside the walls of Bousbir — Casablanca’s red-light district and a tourist destination for Europeans. @katyphipps.bsky.social uncovers their stories.
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.