Trans America: A Counter-History

By Barry Reay November 17, 2020 Author Interviews 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 4 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 0 comments

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

CFP: Transgender Histories

By notcheseditor June 28, 2017 CFP 1 comment

How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?

Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer

By Cheryl Morgan May 2, 2017 Ancient World 10 comments

In the cradle of human civilisation, individuals were living lives outside of the gender binary.