What Franco’s Archives Accidentally Preserved About Queer Life in Spain

By Javier Fernandez Galeano NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The archive was a technology of power that paradoxically ended up preserving the very traces of queer life it set out to eradicate.

The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

By Lisa Z. Sigel 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The People’s Porn provides the first large-scale history of American handmade and homemade pornography.

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.