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sjfgss-3189	Harrel, Michaela	Boy dancers and men on horses: Post-colonial identity and gender policy in modern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan	2024	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4755	198	39	Identity-building in the post-Soviet era has relied on rejecting “Soviet-ness” as a marker of colonial history and turning to “pre-Soviet national heritage,” yet it was the Soviet Union that first criminalized homosexuality in Uzbekistan (Yemelianova 2014) (Aripova 2022). Despite trying to establish unique post-Soviet and anti-colonial national identities, modern politicians are forced to use the borders, identities, and narratives manufactured by the Soviet Union, creating historical dis/continuities and blurring the line between pre-colonial, Soviet, and post-Soviet in each of the republics.	cache/sjfgss-3189.pdf	txt/sjfgss-3189.txt