Will the Sissy be Triumphant?

By Marlon Ross 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

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

Black Trans Feminism

By Marquis Bey Author Interviews, Race and Ethnicity, Trans

Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.

Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

By Cynthia Barounis Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

By Julie Peakman Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism

A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

Histories of the Transgender Child

By Jules Gill-Peterson Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, Trans

Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.