Tag: methodology

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By notcheseditor August 25, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Pat Omoregie Saheed Aderinto’s When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (Illinois, 2015), explores tensions in colonial Nigeria through the lens of a struggle over how to control and regulate prostitution. Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of […]

Interracialintimacies.org: An Online Interactive Archives and Teaching Tool

By notcheseditor August 18, 2015 Asian Sexualities, Digital Humanities 0 comments

Mavis’ family photo album opened a door on a life of interracial intimacy.

Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”

By notcheseditor August 11, 2015 Archives of Desire 0 comments

Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.

Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover

By Christopher Elias July 30, 2015 Archives of Desire, LGBTQ 6 comments

Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

The Case of the Sultry Mountie, or, We Need to Talk about Cecil

By Justin Bengry May 26, 2015 LGBTQ 0 comments

Justin Bengry I never knew my great uncle Cecil Bengry. Affectionately known as Cic’, this bachelor uncle seems to have lived in the background of other people’s lives. Even the pictures of Cic’ in old age that I found among my own grandfather’s (his brother) papers are faded and overexposed, their […]

Archives of Desire: Happiness of Womanhood Newsletter, 1977

By Neil Young May 12, 2015 Archives of Desire, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Fears of changing sexual mores shaped HOW’s women’s worldview and mobilized their politics.

Oral Histories and Alternative Archives: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics

By Dan Royles April 30, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

Dan Royles As historians, how does the past speak to us, and when it does, how do we listen? These were the questions broached by the papers in the final session of the CLGBTH‘s conference-within-a-conference at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting. This session combined papers from the panels “Pragmatism and […]