Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

By Laura Horak NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.

A Queer Theory of the State

By Samuel Huneke NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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.

Drag: A British History

By Jacob Bloomfield NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A fresh history of British drag performance in all its ubiquity, glamour, fun, and tawdriness.

Dismantling Borders: (Un)Naming the Queer Diasporic Algérienne

By Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili Queer Philologies

In Garçon Manqué [Tomboy], Nina Bouraoui explores nation, culture, gender identity and queer desire.

The Languages of Queer History

By Stephen Turton Queer Philologies

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.

Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo

By Elyssa Ford 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Slapping Leather traces gay rodeo as a space where queer people have been able to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the American West.

The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola

By Michael Rosenfeld LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.