pieces examine how transness has been pathologized as a medical disorder requiring a cure, or that one assimilate in effort to become “unclockable.” And ultimately, the case of people who move across gender assignations displaces the ongoingness of colonial classification systems. Those with an expressed disinterest in being “cured” of their... See more

One of the first legislative acts of the autonomous federation of Australian states was the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. It introduced the infamous dictation test, widely copied around the world, whose primary goal was to keep out nonwhites. The "white Australia" policy was articulated as one of survival, a cornerstone of the national

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Archaeologists’ interpretations of premodern tribal borders have changed in the last forty years. Most pre-state tribal borders are now thought to have been porous and dynamic—frontiers, not boundaries. More important, most are thought to have been ephemeral. The tribes Europeans encountered in their colonial ventures in Africa, South Asia, the

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