Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews

What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?

The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History

By Laura Belmonte Author Interviews, LGBTQ

A brief and compelling history of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement.

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

By Leah DeVun Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Trans

The Shape of Sex reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide

By Elisabeth Jay Friedman Author Interviews, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ

How, when, and why left-leaning Latin American governments responded to the demands of feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements.

“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston

By Caitlin Hopkins Early America, Trans

One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga Empire and Colonialism, Trans

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.

CFP: Transgender Histories

By notcheseditor CFP

How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?