Tag: trans*

Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch From “Gay American History @ 40”

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 18, 2016 Dispatches 5 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History convened Wednesday evening, May 4, at John Jay College in New York City, with a panel on lesbian history. Cheryl Clarke presided over comments by Caroll Smith-Rosenberg and Claire Potter to an audience that […]

The New Polish Government and ‘Gender Ideology’

By Lukasz Szulc April 28, 2016 Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality 1 comment

The crusade against ‘gender ideology’ started with a letter by the Bishops’ Conference of Poland.

Scottish Storytelling Sessions: Queer History, Community and Archives

By Alva Traebert March 29, 2016 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 1 comment

Oral history faces the challenge of bridging the divide between the observer and the observed.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State–Part 1

By Devin Muchmore March 10, 2016 Early America, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Moderated by Regina Kunzel Edited by Devin McGeehan Muchmore What can histories of sexuality and gender tell us about the carceral state? The United States’ incarceration rate has quadrupled since the 1970s, giving the U.S. the largest prison population in the world. According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 2.2 […]

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves January 12, 2016 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Interview by Kalin Bullin, M. Blake Butler, Deborah Deacon, Christina Fabiani, Elise Forest-Hammond, Adam Kostrich, Jake Sherman, and Lee Thiessen Edited by Rachel Hope Cleves This post launches a new series for NOTCHES, which will feature students interviewing authors of recent works in the history of sexuality. The goal of […]

Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World

By Dr Heike Bauer December 3, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Heike Bauer A new collection of essays I edited, Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World (Temple UP, 2015) shows that the emergence of modern sexuality was a global phenomenon. The book examines the contemporaneous emergence of sexual science in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle […]

Rainbow Plaques: Mapping York’s LGBT History

By Kit Heyam July 23, 2015 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Kit Heyam There are over 70 plaques in York, marking historically significant places from a Roman fortress (Bootham) to a minuscule street (Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate). While the original “blue plaque” scheme was started by English Heritage, any group may erect a plaque, marking spaces linked to people or events they consider worthy […]