Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities

By Donna Drucker LGBTQ, Trans

LGBTQ+ people utilizing fertility technologies may face discrimination, prejudice, and the need to balance a trajectory of gender affirming medical care with prenatal care.

“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.

Female Husbands: A Trans History

By Jen Manion Author Interviews, Trans

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

By Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt Author Interviews, Medieval, Trans

Why is medieval hagiography an important source for trans and genderqueer history?

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Trans

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance.

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

By Leah DeVun Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Trans

The Shape of Sex reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive

By Patricio Simonetto Latin American Sexualities, Trans

As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.