Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.
Tag: trans history
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
Why is medieval hagiography an important source for trans and genderqueer history?
‘She rose in the Morning of a contrary Sex’: Stories from Early Modern Wonder Books
Early modern wonder books included stories of people who changed sex as a surprising natural phenomenon.
“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston
One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.
Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History
Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg
Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.