“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy, Trans

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

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

By Dr Heike Bauer Medicine and the Body

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

"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?

By Tom O'Donnell LGBTQ, Medieval

Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.

Eugenics and Intersex: The consequences of defining "normal" bodies

By Katelyn Dykerman Medicine and the Body

Decisions to limit life based on social or cultural biases contain dangerous eugenic possibilities.

Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"

By Onni Gust African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism

Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.

Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality

By Rachel Gordan 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

Orthodox writers sought to educate Americans about Judaism’s approach to sex.

‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

By Marianna Muravyeva Early Modern, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

‘Hermaphrodites’ represented a true puzzle for the authorities and local community.