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Tag: LGBTQ
Coloring into Existence: Queer of Color Worldmaking in Children’s Literature
Emerging out of the history of radical feminist and BIPOC publishers, here are three independent publishers of LGBTQ+ children’s literature.
What Franco’s Archives Accidentally Preserved About Queer Life in Spain
The archive was a technology of power that paradoxically ended up preserving the very traces of queer life it set out to eradicate.
A Queer Theory of the State
A Queer Theory of the State is about the inability of queer theory – and, in a broader sense, modern progressivism and liberalism – to effectively imagine a better future.
Aleksandr Aleksandrov: New Sources in Nineteenth-Century Russian Trans Life-Writing
Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1783-1866) was a Russian-Ukrainian hero of the Napoleonic wars and a celebrated trans author.
The Languages of Queer History
Studying the language of queer history gives us insight into past efforts to control the social value of gender and sexuality by defining their meaning.
Female Husbands: A Trans History
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.
