Beyond the Binary: Science, History, and the Radical Possibilities of Sex and Gender

By Kirsten Leng August 13, 2019 LGBTQ, Trans 1 comment

Science has been a crucial resource for those seeking to radically rethink the possibilities of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History

By Emily Skidmore November 28, 2017 Trans 0 comments

Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?

Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism

By Galen Comerford November 21, 2017 Trans 0 comments

Many in the trans community feared the power that a psychiatric diagnosis lends professionals over trans lives.

Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome

By GVGK Tang November 14, 2017 Trans 4 comments

Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga November 7, 2017 Trans 0 comments

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.