Black Trans Feminism

By Marquis Bey Author Interviews

Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.

“The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities

By Ocean Ouillette 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Trans

There is a rich, but often overlooked, history of affinity and solidarity between trans and non-trans lesbians.

Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke

By Alison Efford Author Interviews, Early America, LGBTQ

The lives, letters, and “romantic friendship” shared between two women during the nineteenth century.

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900-1933

By Kirsten Leng Author Interviews, Modern Europe

German-speaking feminists created new knowledge in sexology that challenged sexist biases and expanded possibilities for gendered and sexual expression.

Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales

By Caroline Derry Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History

By Julia Laite Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom

Sex workers living under these regimes have to keep selling sex in a climate made significantly more hostile by further criminalization.