Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

By Pamela VanHaitsma Author Interviews, LGBTQ

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

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

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