Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews 0 comments

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 0 comments

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 0 comments

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 0 comments

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 1 comment

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

By Emily Skidmore Trans 0 comments

Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?

Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome

By GVGK Tang Ancient World, Trans 5 comments

Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.