NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

By Laura Horak NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.

A Queer Theory of the State

By Samuel Huneke NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A Queer Theory of the State is about the inability of queer theory – and, in a broader sense, modern progressivism and liberalism – to effectively imagine a better future.

Sex Work in Contemporary Russia

By Emily Schuckman Matthews NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The female sex worker as one of Russia’s most revealing cultural symbols.

Looking through the Speculum

By Judith Houck NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Women’s bodies were not the only focus of the women’s health movement in the United States.

Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy

By Michael Sappol NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.

Sexuality in Modern German History

By Katie Sutton NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A deep look at shifting views about ‘normal’ and nonconforming sexuality across two centuries, and how these shaped people’s behaviours, politics, and lives.