What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?
Trans
Female Husbands: A Trans History
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
Why is medieval hagiography an important source for trans and genderqueer history?
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
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
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
As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.
Trans America: A Counter-History
Despite the prominence of what is now called trans in contemporary culture, there is a shortage of comprehensive trans histories.
