The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

By Christine Varnado February 18, 2021 Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ 0 comments

The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.

Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture

By Hongwei Bao April 14, 2020 Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.

Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present

By Simon Avery December 15, 2018 Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?

The World and Other Unpublished Works of Radclyffe Hall

By Jana Funke July 24, 2018 Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

New archival materials that broaden and complicate our understanding of Radclyffe Hall.

Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex

By Sarah Schulman February 27, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States 0 comments

Sarah Schulman on changing attitudes towards intergenerational sex within the queer community.

Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World

By Dr Heike Bauer December 3, 2015 Medicine and the Body 4 comments

Sexual science emerged contemporaneously in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle East.

Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages

By Kathryn Maude September 1, 2015 Medieval 1 comment

Aelred of Rievaulx’s writings help us to understand medieval experiences of sex and sexual desire.