Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

By Amber Musser August 8, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Sensual Excess explores different iterations of racialized sexuality through the work of artists of color.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci May 2, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez September 18, 2018 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.

A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

By Alexie Glover June 29, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 1 comment

Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles June 15, 2017 LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 3 comments

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Not Straight, Not White: A Student Interview with Kevin Mumford

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 25, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 1 comment

An interview with author Kevin Mumford about his new book detailing the lives of black gay men from the Civil Rights Movement to the AIDS crisis

Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community

By Andrea Eidinger May 9, 2017 Canada, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.