“The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities

By Ocean Ouillette 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Trans

There is a rich, but often overlooked, history of affinity and solidarity between trans and non-trans lesbians.

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

By Elizabeth Reis 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body

How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?

Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Sexual Labour

Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.

Southerners: Archiving Queer Southern Diaspora in New York City

By Jerry Watkins 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Southerners collection opens a window onto extended kinship networks and self-described “surrogate family” in the queer Southern diaspora.

The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

By Lisa Z. Sigel 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews

The People’s Porn provides the first large-scale history of American handmade and homemade pornography.

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.