Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

By Melissa Wilcox LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an unaffiliated, non-celibate order of queer, activist nuns.

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

By Carissa Harris Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Pedagogy, Sexual Violence

Obscenity is useful as a tool for teaching about sex and consent in the Middle Ages, and today.

Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide

By Elisabeth Jay Friedman Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How, when, and why left-leaning Latin American governments responded to the demands of feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

By Julio Capo 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

“Fairyland” came to represent radically different things to discrete groups of people.

After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

After Eunuchs tells a history of sex change in modern China.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman African Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.