Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

By Pamela VanHaitsma Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.

The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.

Disciplining Black Bodies: Racial Stereotypes of Cleanliness and Sexuality

By Victoria Wolcott 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 1 comment

The importance of highlighting the full humanity of historical actors whose voices are largely silent in the archive.