Queer Belonging in the New Mexico Desert

By Jordan Walters NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer New Mexicans built worlds of art, love, and resistance over the course of the twentieth century.

Queer Crafts: LGBTQ+ Identity, Politics, and Cultural Expression

By Daniel Fountain NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Craft is not simply the act of making; it is a powerful site of identity, politics, and cultural expression.

Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, United Kingdom

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.

Virgin Whore

By Emma Maggie Solberg Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock

By Amy Werbel 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Lust on Trial chronicles intensive efforts to purify American sexuality (1873-1915), and their epic failure.

A Relationship Revealed

By Cassandra Good Early America

The miniature “Beauty Revealed” suggests an erotic relationship between an early American artist and a statesman.