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.

Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love

By Joanna Bourke January 7, 2021 Animal Sexuality, Author Interviews 3 comments

How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande August 18, 2020 Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Queer Encounters in the Garden

By Christopher Fite May 7, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

By Hongwei Bao January 2, 2019 Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Qay identity and queer activism in contemporary China from a queer Marxist perspective.