“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History

By Joseph Gamble Queer Philologies, Trans

Dictionaries—in their contested and flawed glory—can teach us much about the multiplicity of gendered and sexual possibilities of history.

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

By Jessica Hinchy Author Interviews

For many colonial officials, Hijras were not only a danger to ‘public morals’, but also a threat to colonial political authority.

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews

What can we learn from historic stories of gender non-conformity?

Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas

By Jana Funke Childhood and Youth

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.

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

By Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt Author Interviews, Medieval, Trans

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

By Lee Raye Early Modern

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

By Caitlin Hopkins Early America, Trans

One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.