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Dispatch from Fireball in Newark: The Ballroom Scene and Legendary Houses

By notcheseditor May 12, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

Kristyn Scorsone, Naomi Extra, and Keishla Rivera * Fireball is a fast and furious DIY event. The structure of the ball is such that anyone can turn up announced and walk any category. The order rarely follows the program. As a result it is not possible to identify the participants […]

How to Study an American Sex Scandal

By notcheseditor April 19, 2016 Post-1945 United States 0 comments

When does sex become a political weapon?

History of Sexuality at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference

By notcheseditor March 6, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

The Eleventh European Social Science History conference (ESSHC) takes place from March 30 to April 2, 2016, in Valencia, Spain. This year’s conference includes a number of exciting panels and events devoted to exploring the history of gender and sexuality across time and space, which we have listed for our readers […]

Sex, Disease, and Fertility in History

By notcheseditor January 28, 2016 Dispatches, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Boyd Brogan If you’re looking for evidence about bodies in history, it doesn’t get harder than skeletons. Opening this three-day conference at the University of Cambridge on the historical relationship between sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and fertility, bioarchaeologist Charlotte Roberts argued that it is human remains, not documents, that constitute the primary record […]

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By notcheseditor January 19, 2016 Modern Europe 3 comments

Michelle Lynn Kahn “Are you safe?” Emails from loved ones flooded my inbox the first days of 2016. All assumed the worst-case scenario: that I was among the victims of the coordinated sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve at the Central Train Station in Cologne, Germany, where I am writing […]