Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries

By Bruce Henderson June 6, 2021 Author Interviews 0 comments

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries is designed as an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in this rapidly growing field.

Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive

By Patricio Simonetto March 9, 2021 Latin American Sexualities, Trans 0 comments

As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.

Trans America: A Counter-History

By Barry Reay November 17, 2020 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Trans 0 comments

Despite the prominence of what is now called trans in contemporary culture, there is a shortage of comprehensive trans histories.

Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories

By Barry Reay June 27, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews 0 comments

Sex in the Archives is an experiment in writing an American sexual history that refuses the confines of identity in sexuality studies.

Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History

By Emily Skidmore November 28, 2017 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 November 14, 2017 Ancient World, Trans 5 comments

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

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga November 7, 2017 Empire and Colonialism, Trans 1 comment

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.