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

By Sadie Johnson-Ouillette 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Trans 0 comments

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 0 comments

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 0 comments

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 2 comments

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 Author Interviews 0 comments

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 1 comment

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

Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space

By Bojan Bilić Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe 0 comments

Sisterhood and Unity explores the history and politics of lesbian activism in the (post-)Yugoslav space.