The archive was a technology of power that paradoxically ended up preserving the very traces of queer life it set out to eradicate.
NOTCHES on the Bookshelf
Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds
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
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
The female sex worker as one of Russia’s most revealing cultural symbols.
Looking through the Speculum
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
Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.
Sexuality in Modern German History
A deep look at shifting views about ‘normal’ and nonconforming sexuality across two centuries, and how these shaped people’s behaviours, politics, and lives.
