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 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?