Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy

By Michael Sappol NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.

Will the Sissy be Triumphant?

By Marlon Ross 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.

Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education

By Paul Baker LGBTQ

Are there parallels between the homophobic 1980s and the present day?

Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety

By Keira Mac Neill LGBTQ

In 1970s United States gay patrol units rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

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

By Bojan Bilić LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

Queer History and the Holocaust

By Anna Hajkova LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence

Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.